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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Park Street Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SZ
Received 15 Dec 202526 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 15 Dec 202526 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 15 Dec 202511 Lower Camden Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JJ
Received 15 Dec 2025Home Farm , Village Road, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DA
Received 15 Dec 2025Ground Floor, 9 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RU
Received 16 Dec 20253 Symes Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4PA
Received 16 Dec 202517 Dilly Meadows, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6DR
Received 16 Dec 2025Greenaways , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 16 Dec 20255 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 16 Dec 20255 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 16 Dec 2025Homewood Park Hotel, Homewood, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TB
Received 15 Dec 202517 Shophouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EB
Received 16 Dec 2025139 Penn Hill Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RU
Received 16 Dec 2025Aviemore, Fosseway, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AU
Received 16 Dec 202513 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 16 Dec 202513 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 16 Dec 202537 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 16 Dec 2025Newdigate , Beckford Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NQ
Received 16 Dec 202517 Third Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NY
Received 16 Dec 2025Radstock Methodist Church , The Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PL
Received 16 Dec 2025Stoneleigh , Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 16 Dec 202566 Ashley Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TS
Received 16 Dec 2025Upper Shockerwick Farm , Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LH
Received 16 Dec 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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