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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
2 Claremont Terrace , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EH
Received 5 Sept 202515 - 17 Trim Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HA
Received 5 Sept 202515 - 17 Trim Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HA
Received 5 Sept 202516 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 5 Sept 2025Land East Of 16 Excelsior Terrace, Pit Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Sept 202557 Third Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NZ
Received 8 Sept 202554 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PJ
Received 8 Sept 202541 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 8 Sept 202515 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 8 Sept 202515 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 8 Sept 202517 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 8 Sept 2025Crescent View , 179 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AU
Received 8 Sept 2025Parish's House , Hook, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0ND
Received 8 Sept 2025Parcel 5532 East Of Buckley Cottage, Benleaze Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Sept 2025Central Gardens, St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 8 Sept 20257 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DS
Received 8 Sept 2025Bathford House , 31 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 8 Sept 2025Yotes Cottage , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 8 Sept 2025561 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Sept 2025Briscoe House , 28 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RS
Received 8 Sept 2025Hilston , 29 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 8 Sept 202513 Eastbourne Avenue, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EW
Received 8 Sept 2025Vane Cottage, 22 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JU
Received 8 Sept 2025Court Mead , Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 8 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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