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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath Honda, Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 18 Aug 2025Bath Honda, Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 18 Aug 20254 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JX
Received 18 Aug 20252 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NF
Received 18 Aug 20256 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NF
Received 18 Aug 2025Two The Butty Piece , 6 Park Street Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SZ
Received 18 Aug 2025Grove House , Englishcombe Road, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DR
Received 19 Aug 2025The Old Rectory , Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ST
Received 19 Aug 2025Millstream, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Aug 202511 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 19 Aug 2025Former Bath Press Premises, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Aug 202563 Augustus Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FH
Received 19 Aug 2025University Of Bath , University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AY
Received 19 Aug 20256 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EW
Received 19 Aug 202518 Manor Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DN
Received 19 Aug 2025Parcel 0038, Green Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Aug 20253 St Christopher's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RG
Received 19 Aug 20253 Camden Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HZ
Received 19 Aug 2025Land To The East Of 77 London Road West, London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Aug 2025Street Record, Ferndale Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Aug 2025Land Adjacent To Garden Cottage, High Street, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Aug 2025Street Record, Footpaths Ferndale Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Aug 2025The Arches, River View, Steel Mills, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1EZ
Received 19 Aug 2025Signal Box Yard Block 1, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 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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