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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 20 Nov 202538 Kipling Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RB
Received 20 Nov 20251 Walmsley Terrace , Walmsley Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DW
Received 21 Nov 202514 St Michael's Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PZ
Received 21 Nov 2025Former Bath Press Premises, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Nov 20255 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 21 Nov 2025H&m, 16 - 18 St Lawrence Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AN
Received 21 Nov 202552 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LJ
Received 21 Nov 202542 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SX
Received 21 Nov 202547 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LH
Received 21 Nov 2025Garden Flat, 9A Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 21 Nov 2025Connaught Mansions , Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BP
Received 21 Nov 2025Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Nov 2025Willow Bank , Dumpers Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SS
Received 21 Nov 202522 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AG
Received 21 Nov 202566 Leighton Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NG
Received 24 Nov 2025Council Cleansing Depot, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Nov 202545 Manor Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RB
Received 24 Nov 2025Bath City Football Club , High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DB
Received 24 Nov 2025South Field, 10 Belgrave Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Nov 2025Laggan House, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RY
Received 24 Nov 2025Fairleaze , Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UN
Received 24 Nov 2025The Old Brewery , Church Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TU
Received 24 Nov 20252 Weston Mews , Manor Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AP
Received 24 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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