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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71,492 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
73 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 15 Apr 2026Street Record, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Apr 2026Woodland Adjacent To Combe Farm, The Coombe, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Apr 2026Stoneacre House , Stowey Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TG
Received 15 Apr 202631 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SU
Received 15 Apr 2026Flat, 11 High Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1DP
Received 15 Apr 202646 Elm Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BA
Received 15 Apr 20267 Montrose Cottages, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AF
Received 15 Apr 2026The Pines , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LS
Received 15 Apr 20265 Princes Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ED
Received 15 Apr 2026112 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QS
Received 15 Apr 2026Delys , Eckweek Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EQ
Received 15 Apr 2026Mission House , Williamstowe, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EJ
Received 15 Apr 202631 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SA
Received 16 Apr 202655 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RG
Received 16 Apr 20261A Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 16 Apr 2026Maynard Poultry Farm , Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PJ
Received 16 Apr 2026King Edwards School , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HU
Received 16 Apr 202621 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AL
Received 16 Apr 202612 Clarence Place, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EW
Received 16 Apr 2026Kingswood Preparatory School , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SD
Received 16 Apr 2026Plumb Center, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EU
Received 16 Apr 2026Uphill , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 16 Apr 202649 Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JU
Received 16 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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