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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Top Floor, 4 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QU
Received 22 Sept 20255 Lansdown Square East, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DS
Received 22 Sept 202527 Rockliffe Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QP
Received 22 Sept 20259 Westhall Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BQ
Received 22 Sept 202522 Melrose Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1HZ
Received 22 Sept 2025Middlestone House , Ham Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TZ
Received 22 Sept 2025Casita, 4A Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 22 Sept 202516 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BY
Received 22 Sept 202535 Southstoke Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SN
Received 22 Sept 2025The Threshing Barn, Shockerwick Farm Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LL
Received 22 Sept 2025The Threshing Barn, Shockerwick Farm Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LL
Received 22 Sept 2025Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Sept 2025Chalfont , Charlcombe Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TP
Received 22 Sept 202515 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Sept 2025119 Ivy Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AW
Received 22 Sept 20255 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 22 Sept 2025Land Between Access Track And Boundary In Parcel 9517, Church Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Sept 2025Feltham Lodge , The Coombe, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JD
Received 22 Sept 202525 Northampton Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SW
Received 23 Sept 20259 Woodland Grove, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AT
Received 23 Sept 202510 Tennis Court Avenue, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NA
Received 23 Sept 202527 Rockliffe Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QP
Received 23 Sept 2025Hayesbrow , Hayesfield Park, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QE
Received 23 Sept 202528 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RH
Received 23 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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