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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Parcel 1967, Stitchings Shord Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Sept 2025Briary Gap , Gibbet Lane, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BX
Received 9 Sept 202513 Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 9 Sept 20254 Gibbs Mews, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 9 Sept 20254 Albion Terrace, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AF
Received 9 Sept 20251 Kelston View, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NW
Received 9 Sept 2025First Floor Flat, 8 Queen's Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NJ
Received 9 Sept 202521 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Sept 202540 Elm Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BA
Received 9 Sept 2025Wester Lea , 204 Old Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RH
Received 9 Sept 2025Wester Lea , 204 Old Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RH
Received 9 Sept 2025Monkton Wyld, Court Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RY
Received 2 Sept 202543 Brummel Way, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7XG
Received 9 Sept 2025Land Behind Perfect View, Perfect View, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Sept 202511 Berkeley Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2EF
Received 9 Sept 202537 Garstons, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TE
Received 10 Sept 2025Swainswick Post Office , 62 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AY
Received 10 Sept 2025Lawrence Farm, North Wick, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NP
Received 10 Sept 2025The Retreat , 5 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2US
Received 10 Sept 2025253 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AA
Received 10 Sept 2025St Julian's Church , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 10 Sept 2025122 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DJ
Received 10 Sept 2025Techniglaze Ltd, 48 First Avenue, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Sept 20259 Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3HD
Received 10 Sept 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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