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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
71,492 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fitness First, Kingsmead Leisure Complex, 5 - 10 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 29 Jan 2026102 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jan 2026Oakfield , Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AS
Received 29 Jan 202618 Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RJ
Received 29 Jan 2026Ferrils , Rectory Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JP
Received 29 Jan 2026101 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 29 Jan 2026Chivers House, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 29 Jan 2026Belgrave Cottage , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JL
Received 29 Jan 2026Dunkerton Hill Roundabout, Peasedown St John By-pass, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jan 202611 Winscombe Close, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2HR
Received 20 Jan 202612 Trenchard Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DT
Received 30 Jan 202614 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 30 Jan 2026Belgrave Cottage , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JL
Received 30 Jan 202660 Fairfield Avenue, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NJ
Received 30 Jan 2026The Lodge Mews , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EP
Received 30 Jan 2026Timpson, 5 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1QE
Received 30 Jan 20267 Chapel Row, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TB
Received 30 Jan 2026Parcel 5425, Rankers Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 2026Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 30 Jan 2026Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 30 Jan 2026The Chequers , High Street, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WF
Received 30 Jan 2026Chandos , 42 Chandag Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NY
Received 30 Jan 2026Waterworks Cottage , Charlcombe Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JZ
Received 2 Feb 202625 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 2 Feb 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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