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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Hill Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DB
Received 23 Dec 2025Basement Flat 1, 14 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 23 Dec 2025View Point Farm , Colliers Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DP
Received 24 Dec 2025The Coach House, Kingwell Hall, Hayeswood Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HH
Received 24 Dec 2025Parcel 0014, Charlton Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Dec 20259 Chatham Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BS
Received 24 Dec 20259 Chatham Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BS
Received 24 Dec 20258 Lambridge Mews, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QE
Received 25 Dec 2025Proposed Employment Unit 2, Bell Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Dec 2025Site Of Old Gas Works, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath,
Received 29 Dec 202526 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 30 Dec 2025Camerton Batch, Red Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Dec 2025Hill House, The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AN
Received 30 Dec 2025The Stable House , Shockerwick Farm Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LN
Received 30 Dec 2025Scout And Guide Huts, Scouts Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Dec 202512 St Peter's Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BJ
Received 31 Dec 2025Manor Cross House , The Street, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PJ
Received 31 Dec 202524 Aesop Drive, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2GP
Received 14 Oct 2025Greencroft , 121 Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3LW
Received 14 Oct 2025The Chantry , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HB
Received 14 Oct 2025Chew Court , Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SF
Received 15 Oct 2025185 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1JJ
Received 15 Oct 2025Upper Shockerwick Farm , Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LH
Received 15 Oct 2025Second Floor, 28 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 15 Oct 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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