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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 9 Oct 2025139 Sheridan Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RA
Received 13 Oct 202511 - 12 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TE
Received 13 Oct 20259 Badminton Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XS
Received 13 Oct 2025Myrtle Cottage , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 13 Oct 2025Fairholm, 130 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1JF
Received 13 Oct 2025Theela House , St Stephen's Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PH
Received 13 Oct 2025Greenwoods , 50 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JT
Received 14 Oct 2025Edelweiss Farm, Fosseway, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BS
Received 14 Oct 2025Thrubwell Farmhouse, Thrubwell Farm, Thrubwell Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 5AW
Received 14 Oct 202530 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PA
Received 14 Oct 202530 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PA
Received 14 Oct 2025Harptree Court, Whitecross Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AA
Received 14 Oct 2025Newbridge Towers , 169 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PX
Received 14 Oct 2025Fox Den, Farrs Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DT
Received 14 Oct 202530 Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AE
Received 29 Jul 202513 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 29 Jul 202561 Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LD
Received 29 Jul 2025Wisteria Cottage , 19 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TU
Received 30 Jul 2025Street Record, Kingsmead Terrace, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jul 2025Chew Valley Rugby Club , Chew Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UE
Received 30 Jul 202514 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PQ
Received 30 Jul 2025Home Farm , Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UB
Received 30 Jul 202562 Bloomfield Drive, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BG
Received 30 Jul 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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