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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
71,484 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DW
Received 16 Mar 2026Chancely House , 3 Laggan Gardens, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RX
Received 16 Mar 20265 Laggan Gardens, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RX
Received 16 Mar 2026Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 16 Mar 20261 Tithe Barn , Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SU
Received 16 Mar 2026Durham House , 5 Hamilton Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SB
Received 16 Mar 2026Weaver Demolition Ltd, Unit 1, Farrington Fields Trading Estate, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UU
Received 16 Mar 2026Ellenborough House , St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RN
Received 16 Mar 2026Old Station House , Station Road, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WQ
Received 16 Mar 202653 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PQ
Received 17 Mar 202653 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PQ
Received 17 Mar 202651 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 16 Mar 20263 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 17 Mar 20266 St Lawrence Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AN
Received 17 Mar 202637 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 17 Mar 2026Abbey Church Of St Peter & St Paul, Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NZ
Received 17 Mar 2026Mount Beacon House , Richmond Hill, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QR
Received 17 Mar 2026Mount Beacon House , Richmond Hill, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QR
Received 17 Mar 2026Crocombe House , Crocombe, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JS
Received 17 Mar 2026Maisonette , 172A Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JR
Received 17 Mar 202618 Cynthia Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QH
Received 17 Mar 20268 Thornbank Place, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HH
Received 17 Mar 202612 Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 17 Mar 202622 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RH
Received 17 Mar 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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