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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
71,498 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Parcel 2138 Grubbins Wood, Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Mar 202610 Eastbourne Avenue, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EW
Received 5 Mar 2026Parade Park Hotel, 8 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Mar 202645 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HZ
Received 5 Mar 202637 Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PR
Received 5 Mar 202610A Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UG
Received 6 Mar 202634 Fosseway South, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AN
Received 6 Mar 2026Former Purnell Factory North View Development Site, Oxleaze Way, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Mar 20267 Cork Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BD
Received 6 Mar 20265 Widcombe Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AJ
Received 6 Mar 202620 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 6 Mar 2026Rising Sun , Church Street, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AQ
Received 6 Mar 202683 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 6 Mar 20264 Saville Row, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QP
Received 6 Mar 2026Westerleigh , 11A Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HY
Received 6 Mar 2026Parcel 1350, Staples Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Mar 20263 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BL
Received 9 Mar 2026Chapel Of St Mary Magdalen , Holloway, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PX
Received 9 Mar 2026The Dell, Church Lane, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BD
Received 9 Mar 2026First Floor Flat 2, 8 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 9 Mar 202612 Rooksbridge Walk, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BS
Received 9 Mar 202665 Rag Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LS
Received 9 Mar 2026106 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LS
Received 9 Mar 202619 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 2 Mar 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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