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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Between 16 And Bypass, London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Aug 202534 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 21 Aug 20258 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PA
Received 21 Aug 2025Wilmslow , Bannerdown Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7ND
Received 22 Aug 202575 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AY
Received 13 Aug 20251 Swainswick Gardens, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6TL
Received 13 Aug 20253 Swainswick Gardens, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6TL
Received 13 Aug 202567 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AY
Received 13 Aug 2025Former Radstock County Infant School, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Aug 2025Fiddlers Elbow , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HZ
Received 22 Aug 2025Greystones, South Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EJ
Received 22 Aug 202574 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AY
Received 13 Aug 2025Land Parcel 0005, Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Aug 2025The Old School House, St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PR
Received 22 Aug 2025Barnbridge House , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 22 Aug 2025Lennox House , 3 Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LB
Received 22 Aug 2025New Bridge, Bristol Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UB
Received 22 Aug 2025Stratton House , 16 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 22 Aug 202512 Staunton Fields, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QD
Received 22 Aug 202589 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LJ
Received 22 Aug 20257 Northfields, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TN
Received 22 Aug 2025Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 22 Aug 2025The Globe Inn, Pennyquick, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BB
Received 22 Aug 202566 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 22 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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