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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
71,501 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 19 Feb 202622 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 19 Feb 2026Freshford Mill, Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7PL
Received 19 Feb 202628 Lansdown View, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JP
Received 16 Feb 2026Homefield , Whitehouse Lane, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4PS
Received 19 Feb 20267 Ringwood Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JJ
Received 19 Feb 202647 Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BB
Received 20 Feb 202630 Fosseway, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AX
Received 20 Feb 20267 Prospect Place, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EU
Received 20 Feb 2026The Weigh Bridge House, Fry's Bottom, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Feb 20265 Melcombe Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LR
Received 20 Feb 202649 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RG
Received 20 Feb 2026The Old Rectory , Upper Road, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AN
Received 20 Feb 2026Knights Folly Farm , Woollard Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QT
Received 20 Feb 2026St Martin's Garden Primary School, Lympsham Green, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UN
Received 20 Feb 20261 How Hill, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DL
Received 20 Feb 202652 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PJ
Received 20 Feb 202615 Seven Acre Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HJ
Received 20 Feb 2026Hartwells Of Bath, Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Feb 2026King Edwards School Playing Field, Dark Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Feb 2026Flat 1, Montague House, Lambridge Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RX
Received 20 Feb 2026Courtyard Flat, 1 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 20 Feb 20261 Sion Hill Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SJ
Received 20 Feb 2026Spring Cottage , Steel Mills, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1EZ
Received 23 Feb 2026Records 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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