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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71,498 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Oakley, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DS
Received 6 Jan 202616 Thornbank Place, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HH
Received 6 Jan 2026Ashton , 26 Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SG
Received 6 Jan 2026Minerva House , Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ER
Received 6 Jan 2026William Herschel Museum, 19 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 6 Jan 202611 Lilac Terrace, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AP
Received 6 Jan 20261 Mendip Houses , Walley Court Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XL
Received 6 Jan 2026Finches , Summerfield Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QB
Received 6 Jan 202632 Green Park, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HZ
Received 6 Jan 2026Nursery Farm , New Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NB
Received 7 Jan 2026The Beeches , Monger Lane, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2SP
Received 7 Jan 2026Bailbrook House Hotel , Eveleigh Avenue, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JD
Received 7 Jan 202622 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AG
Received 7 Jan 202633 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NE
Received 7 Jan 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 7 Jan 2026The Old Rectory , Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BD
Received 7 Jan 202639 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RS
Received 8 Jan 2026Agricultural Buildings, Ashton Hill, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Jan 2026Greenacres , Littleton Lane, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8NR
Received 8 Jan 2026Former Purnell Factory North View Development Site, Oxleaze Way, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Jan 202679 Dovers Park, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7UD
Received 8 Jan 2026Proposed Development Site, Lansdown View, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Jan 202631 South Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PZ
Received 8 Jan 2026Kingswell , Eckweek Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PH
Received 8 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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