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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
71,488 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Trafalgar Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EW
Received 11 May 202628 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 11 May 20262 Maesbury Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1JR
Received 11 May 202629 St Winifred's Drive, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HR
Received 11 May 2026Bath Recreation Ground Trust Office, Bath Recreation Ground, Pulteney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DS
Received 11 May 2026Riparian House, 83 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 May 2026The Glebe House , 9A School Place, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BG
Received 11 May 202616 May Tree Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TU
Received 11 May 2026Park House , St Chad's Green, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2JT
Received 11 May 2026Infant Play Area, Chandler Close, Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 May 202655 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BW
Received 11 May 2026Z Hotel, 7 Sawclose, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EY
Received 11 May 2026Chew Valley Equestrian, Upton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 May 2026Flat 2, 6 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 11 May 2026Flat 2, 6 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 11 May 2026Pear Tree Cottage , Penn Hill Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SJ
Received 12 May 20261 Sladebrook Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LA
Received 12 May 2026Dukes Hotel, 53 - 54 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 12 May 2026Dukes Hotel, 53 - 54 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 12 May 2026Park Dale , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XA
Received 12 May 202620B Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DE
Received 12 May 202620A Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DE
Received 12 May 2026Church Cottage , Church Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EF
Received 12 May 202624 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 12 May 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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