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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
71,490 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Prezzo , 6 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 21 Apr 2026Prezzo , 6 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 21 Apr 2026Ground Floor, 8 Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AW
Received 22 Apr 2026Ground Floor, 8 Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AW
Received 22 Apr 2026Field To East Of 15 To 21, Meadlands, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Apr 2026Sumela , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 22 Apr 202667 Triangle North, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JB
Received 22 Apr 2026Courtyard Flat, 1 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 22 Apr 2026Railtrack, Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 22 Apr 202664 Carlingcott, Carlingcott, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AP
Received 22 Apr 202696 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LN
Received 23 Apr 2026Sycamore House , Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RS
Received 23 Apr 2026Sycamore House , Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RS
Received 23 Apr 2026Little Oak, Clearbrook Farm, Midford Hill, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DE
Received 3 Apr 2026112 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1JB
Received 23 Apr 2026Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 23 Apr 202669 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 23 Apr 2026Abbey View House , Abbey View, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DG
Received 23 Apr 202614 Tyning End, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AN
Received 23 Apr 202626 Ferenberge Close, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DH
Received 23 Apr 2026Garden Apartment, Somerset House, 1 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AZ
Received 20 Apr 2026Street Record, Clyde Gardens, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Apr 2026Bluecoat House, Sawclose, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EY
Received 23 Apr 2026219 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RZ
Received 23 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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