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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71,494 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
60 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LL
Received 12 Jan 2026Former Post Office Premises, 27 Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Jan 2026Former Post Office Premises, 27 Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Jan 2026153 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 12 Jan 2026Sainsbury's, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 13 Jan 20269 The Firs, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ED
Received 13 Jan 202639 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 13 Jan 2026Woodland And Buildings South Of Footpath, Footpath All Saints Road To Lansdown Place East, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jan 202622 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BZ
Received 13 Jan 2026Combe Royal, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EQ
Received 6 Jan 20262 Roseland Close, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AD
Received 13 Jan 2026Old Mills Court, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jan 2026Old Mills Court, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jan 2026Field Parcel Opposite Town Mills, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jan 2026Sharpstone House, Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 14 Jan 20269 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RQ
Received 14 Jan 2026Newark Works Unoccupied Premises, 1 - 4 Riverside Business Park, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jan 2026Ashford , Ham Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PL
Received 14 Jan 2026Chyryn , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 15 Jan 2026Parcel 8600, Bath Road, Brislington, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jan 2026The Soap Bar And Café, Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TA
Received 15 Jan 2026150 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SE
Received 15 Jan 202638 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AN
Received 15 Jan 2026The Old Rectory, Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BD
Received 7 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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