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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71,492 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 2 Feb 20264 Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BJ
Received 2 Feb 2026Elder House , Tyning Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ER
Received 2 Feb 20267 Holburne Place , Henrietta Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LY
Received 2 Feb 2026York Villa, York Place, London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AE
Received 2 Feb 202647 High Street, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 2 Feb 20264 Nelson Place East, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DA
Received 2 Feb 20264 Nelson Place East, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DA
Received 2 Feb 2026Goudies Farm , Access To Goudies Farm, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DE
Received 2 Feb 202639 Old Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LU
Received 2 Feb 2026Cloisters, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 2 Feb 2026Bath Rugby Club, Bath Recreation Ground, Pulteney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DS
Received 13 Apr 2026Scot Cottage , Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UN
Received 13 Apr 202624 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QA
Received 13 Apr 2026Town Mills, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PB
Received 13 Apr 202620 St Nicholas Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PJ
Received 13 Apr 2026Littlewell Farm, Upper Radford, Paulton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PU
Received 13 Apr 202614 Gordon Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NH
Received 13 Apr 2026Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 13 Apr 2026Gatehouse, Midford Lane, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, BA2 7GW
Received 13 Apr 2026Parcel 2080, Pipehouse, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Apr 2026Flat 4, 6 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 13 Apr 2026116 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EJ
Received 13 Apr 202612 Woodhouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1ST
Received 13 Apr 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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