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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71,498 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
24 Beech Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BA
Received 12 Mar 20263 The Weal, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4HE
Received 12 Mar 202633 Norman Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BQ
Received 12 Mar 202661 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 12 Mar 202615 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 12 Mar 202616 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 12 Mar 20264 Church Street, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AQ
Received 12 Mar 20263 Augusta Place, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3DD
Received 12 Mar 202610 Brookleaze Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RA
Received 13 Mar 2026Gays Hill Bungalow , Bungays Hill, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JS
Received 13 Mar 2026Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Mar 20262 Devonshire Buildings, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SP
Received 13 Mar 202619 Lockingwell Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2HG
Received 13 Mar 2026Holy Trinity Church , Church Street, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LG
Received 13 Mar 202639 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NR
Received 13 Mar 2026Basement, 27 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TF
Received 13 Mar 202629 Bellotts Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RT
Received 13 Mar 2026H&m, 16 - 18 St Lawrence Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AN
Received 13 Mar 2026Barnlea , Withy Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PT
Received 1 Jan 2026Publow Farm , Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HZ
Received 1 Jan 2026Bath First National Spiritualist Church , Old Orchard Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JU
Received 2 Jan 202638 - 41 Broad Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LP
Received 2 Jan 202638 - 41 Broad Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LP
Received 2 Jan 2026Development Site Opposite Woodview, New Pit Cottages, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jan 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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