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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 1 Aug 20257 Cleveland Row, Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QR
Received 1 Aug 2025New Pit Cottage , Bath Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PS
Received 4 Aug 2025The Garden Apartment, 17 Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AP
Received 4 Aug 202523 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RW
Received 4 Aug 2025Dunelm, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 4 Aug 2025Hunters Lodge , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HP
Received 4 Aug 2025Valleyview , Breach Hill Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YB
Received 4 Aug 202537 Stonehouse Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DW
Received 4 Aug 202530 Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SL
Received 5 Aug 2025Blackhorse Cottage , Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UD
Received 5 Aug 202576 Purlewent Drive, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BA
Received 5 Aug 2025Rotork House , Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JQ
Received 5 Aug 20251 Bathway Meadows, London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DD
Received 5 Aug 2025Basement, 8 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UG
Received 5 Aug 2025Ralph Allen School , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AD
Received 5 Aug 2025Hill Top House, Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XG
Received 5 Aug 2025Slim Chickens, 8 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 5 Aug 2025Yotes Cottage , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 5 Aug 20256 - 7 Moorland Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PL
Received 5 Aug 20251 Meadow Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SN
Received 5 Aug 2025Fairlawn, High Street, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WF
Received 5 Aug 2025St Keyna Primary School , Monmouth Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2JP
Received 5 Aug 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Aug 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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