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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 West End Cottages , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QD
Received 10 Sept 202520 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 10 Sept 202520 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 10 Sept 2025Parcel 4919, High Street, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Sept 202551 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 10 Sept 2025Ellenborough House , St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RN
Received 10 Sept 2025170 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AT
Received 10 Sept 2025Lambridge Stables , 13 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HY
Received 10 Sept 20256 Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AD
Received 10 Sept 2025Land At Fosse Farm Combe Hay Ba2 8rf, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Sept 2025Besley Hill Estate Agents, 91 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PS
Received 11 Sept 2025Pound Cottage , Southstoke Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DN
Received 11 Sept 202519 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 12 Sept 20251 Fountain Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DU
Received 12 Sept 2025First Floor, 65 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 12 Sept 2025St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Sept 2025130 Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AB
Received 12 Sept 2025Laurel Gardens , South Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EP
Received 12 Sept 2025Upper Flat, 12 St Luke's Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BB
Received 12 Sept 2025Stream House , The Street, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AL
Received 12 Sept 2025Former Bath Press Premises, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Sept 2025Flat 1, 15 Morford Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RJ
Received 12 Sept 2025Beechlands , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 12 Sept 2025Field Between Bloomfield Road And Englishcombe Way, Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 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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