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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Keniston House , 5 Queens Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2NE
Received 13 Nov 2025506 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JF
Received 13 Nov 2025Land Parcel 0005, Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Nov 2025Parcel 2768, Combe Hay Lane, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Nov 202584 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AX
Received 14 Nov 2025Parcel 6600, Fairy Hill, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Nov 2025Basement Flat, 125 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HG
Received 14 Nov 2025Rainbow Wood House, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AX
Received 14 Nov 20259 St Matthew's Place , Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JJ
Received 14 Nov 20258 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AJ
Received 17 Nov 202529 Chivers Street, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BH
Received 17 Nov 202520 Blackberry Way, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2RN
Received 17 Nov 202515 Hillside Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XG
Received 17 Nov 2025Southlands , Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RU
Received 17 Nov 202568 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LL
Received 17 Nov 202536 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SU
Received 17 Nov 2025White Hart , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AA
Received 17 Nov 2025White Hart , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AA
Received 17 Nov 202512 Eckweek Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PW
Received 17 Nov 202555 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LX
Received 17 Nov 2025The Old Vicarage, 65 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NL
Received 17 Nov 2025Earlesmere , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 17 Nov 2025M & B Brake Press Engineering Limited , Bellotts Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RT
Received 17 Nov 2025Ivy Cottage , Rectory Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JJ
Received 17 Nov 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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