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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
95 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RU
Received 10 Nov 2025Knoll Farm , White Ox Mead Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PL
Received 10 Nov 20256 The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 10 Nov 2025Lansdown Grove Hotel , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EH
Received 10 Nov 2025Greenfinches , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RY
Received 10 Nov 2025Greencroft , 121 Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3LW
Received 10 Nov 2025Tower House , 53 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 10 Nov 2025Camerton Farmhouse, Skinners Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0WA
Received 10 Nov 2025Street Record, Old Orchard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Nov 2025Millstream, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Nov 2025Marlborough House Guest House, 1 Marlborough Lane, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NQ
Received 7 Nov 20252 - 3 George Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EH
Received 10 Nov 20256 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AD
Received 10 Nov 2025Konkers , 1 Byron Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RH
Received 10 Nov 2025Land East Of Longhope House, Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Nov 20259 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PH
Received 10 Nov 202560 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LL
Received 10 Nov 202512 Lower Camden Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JJ
Received 10 Nov 2025Rising Sun , 58 Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BD
Received 10 Nov 2025145 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HF
Received 11 Nov 202541 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 11 Nov 2025Bridport House, 48 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DP
Received 11 Nov 2025Lynwood , Grove Wood Road, Haydon, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QY
Received 11 Nov 2025Primrose Hill House , 2 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2US
Received 11 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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