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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 1, 199 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RZ
Received 12 Sept 2025158 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NF
Received 12 Sept 202525 - 28 Roseberry Road, Twerton, Bath, BA2 3DX
Received 12 Sept 20259 The Batch, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EL
Received 12 Sept 2025Granville Lodge , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 15 Sept 202543 Oriel Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1JE
Received 15 Sept 202587 Bloomfield Drive, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BH
Received 15 Sept 20256 Coburg Villas , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JF
Received 15 Sept 2025Colne House , Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RL
Received 15 Sept 20251 Adelaide Place , Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BU
Received 15 Sept 202530 Vellore Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JQ
Received 15 Sept 2025Steps , Charlcombe Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DS
Received 15 Sept 2025Sunnyside , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 15 Sept 202579 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XN
Received 15 Sept 2025Wellow House , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 15 Sept 2025The Granary, Southstoke Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Sept 20251 Entry Hill Cottages , Lynbrook Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NB
Received 15 Sept 2025112 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1JB
Received 15 Sept 202511 Pulteney Terrace , Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HJ
Received 15 Sept 20251 Old School House , High Street, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BH
Received 15 Sept 202512 Raglans Terrace , Ragland Lane, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HR
Received 16 Sept 202516 Belgrave Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JU
Received 16 Sept 202511 Belgrave Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JU
Received 16 Sept 2025Millstream, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 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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