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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
71,494 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 8 Jan 202618 Dilly Meadows, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6DR
Received 9 Jan 20262 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LL
Received 9 Jan 20261 Grosvenor Villas , Claremont Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QL
Received 9 Jan 2026Coombe House , Church Street, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AQ
Received 9 Jan 202629 Eastfield Avenue, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4HH
Received 9 Jan 2026Abbotsleigh , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 9 Jan 202650 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HY
Received 9 Jan 2026Oakfield, Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AS
Received 9 Jan 2026Students Union , Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BN
Received 9 Jan 2026Norton Hill Primary School , Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2UD
Received 9 Jan 2026The Grange , Chew Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RY
Received 12 Jan 20268 Frys Leaze , Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NU
Received 12 Jan 20263 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LP
Received 12 Jan 2026Claremont Road Allotments, Claremont Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Jan 2026Belmont House, 10 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 12 Jan 2026Sainsbury's, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 12 Jan 2026Radstock Methodist Church , The Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PL
Received 12 Jan 2026129 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 12 Jan 202687 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 12 Jan 2026Dragon Wok, 19 - 20 Elm Terrace, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3XP
Received 12 Jan 2026Den's Yard, Littleton Lane, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8FF
Received 9 Jan 20263 Lansdown Terrace , Lansdown Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EF
Received 12 Jan 20268A The Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BU
Received 12 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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