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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BR
Received 6 Oct 2025Beech Lodge , St Stephen's Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PH
Received 6 Oct 2025Abbey View Allotments, Abbey View Gardens, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 202559 Longfellow Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SH
Received 6 Oct 202552 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 6 Oct 2025Land Next To Grass Lands, Lower Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 202515 Henrietta Villas, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LX
Received 6 Oct 2025Beechwood , The Avenue, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HU
Received 6 Oct 2025Oakdene , Greyfield Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6XX
Received 6 Oct 2025Cecil House, 26 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EX
Received 3 Oct 2025Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 2025St Clair , 46 Devonshire Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UD
Received 6 Oct 202539 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 6 Oct 2025The Annexe, Wall End, Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SX
Received 6 Oct 202577 Hantone Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XD
Received 6 Oct 20252 Hanover Place , London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PJ
Received 6 Oct 2025Grove House West , Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 6 Oct 2025Former Bath Press Premises, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 2025Bathampton Manor , Mill Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TS
Received 6 Oct 2025Claremont Cottage , 103 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 7 Oct 20251 Kelston Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AF
Received 7 Oct 2025Pumping Station, Ham Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Oct 202542 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JZ
Received 7 Oct 202519 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DE
Received 7 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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