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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 15 Oct 202538 Green Park, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HZ
Received 15 Oct 2025The Pines , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LS
Received 15 Oct 202538 Leighton Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NE
Received 15 Oct 2025Thermae Bath Spa , Hot Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SJ
Received 15 Oct 2025Visitor Centre, Brassknocker Basin, Warminster Road, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Oct 2025Street Record, Riverside Gardens, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Oct 2025The Grove , Station Road, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WQ
Received 16 Oct 2025White Hart , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AA
Received 16 Oct 202541 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 16 Oct 2025Ridings , Widcombe Common, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HW
Received 16 Oct 20252 Southlands Drive, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HB
Received 16 Oct 202511 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 16 Oct 2025The Old Stables , Old Bath Road, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 16 Oct 202515 Seven Acre Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HJ
Received 16 Oct 20253 Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 16 Oct 2025Kings Court , Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 16 Oct 2025Flat 4, The Grange, Weston Park West, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AR
Received 16 Oct 2025Thermae Bath Spa , Hot Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SJ
Received 17 Oct 2025Bellfield , Bristol Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UB
Received 17 Oct 2025Former Radstock County Infant School, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Oct 20252 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JX
Received 17 Oct 202535 Maple Gardens, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AG
Received 17 Oct 2025Walcot Upholstery, 6 Cleveland Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DF
Received 17 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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