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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lych Gate , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 30 Sept 2025The Old Farm , Charlcombe Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DS
Received 30 Sept 2025Street Record, High Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Sept 2025Street Record, High Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Sept 2025Shirley Cottage , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 30 Sept 2025Gournay Barn , Compton Martin Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EG
Received 30 Sept 202530 Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PL
Received 30 Sept 202541 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DS
Received 30 Sept 2025280 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 30 Sept 20251 St Charles Close, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XA
Received 1 Oct 2025Grosvenor Bridge House , 9 Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 1 Oct 2025Pinesgate West Ground Floor Offices, Pinesgate, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DP
Received 1 Oct 20254 Monmouth Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2JP
Received 1 Oct 202514 Calton Walk, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QQ
Received 1 Oct 202537 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AN
Received 1 Oct 2025Priory House , North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AT
Received 1 Oct 2025Warners Farm, Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SS
Received 1 Oct 202537 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AN
Received 1 Oct 2025Manor House , Upper Road, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AN
Received 1 Oct 2025The Vine House , Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AB
Received 1 Oct 2025Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Oct 2025Cam Brook Stables , Durcott Lane, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0QG
Received 1 Oct 202511 Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 1 Oct 2025Unit 1 , First Avenue, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BS
Received 2 Oct 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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