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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71,488 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Steepholm , 18 Somerset Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SW
Received 14 May 2026Bath Western Riverside Development Site Phase 2, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 May 202661 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HD
Received 14 May 2026Avery Knight & Bowlers, 35 - 36 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BT
Received 14 May 202627 - 28 Monmouth Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AP
Received 14 May 20261 Devonshire Place, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SW
Received 14 May 20263 Warleigh Drive, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PT
Received 15 May 202611 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 15 May 2026Woodbarn Farm , Denny Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SZ
Received 15 May 2026Barle House , 17 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 15 May 2026Greenhayes, Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DF
Received 15 May 2026St Mary's Church Hall, Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EB
Received 15 May 202610 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NB
Received 15 May 202612 Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 15 May 202612 Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 15 May 2026Manor Farm , Old Burnett Lane, Burnett, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TF
Received 15 May 2026Sewage Purification Works , Mead Lane, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ER
Received 15 May 202687 Bloomfield Drive, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BH
Received 15 May 2026Leigh House Trust Health Centre, 1 Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RN
Received 15 May 2026Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 15 May 202639 Ivy Walk, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2EE
Received 15 May 2026Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 15 May 20265 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 15 May 2026Land And Building At Rear Of 6 Grosvenor Place, Ringswell Gardens, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 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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