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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
71,483 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
51 Holcombe Close, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UP
Received 31 Mar 2026Street Record, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Mar 2026Tokaido , Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UG
Received 31 Mar 2026Walcot Service Station, Dover Terrace, London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PF
Received 31 Mar 2026Baroda , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 31 Mar 202658 Specklemead, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NB
Received 1 Apr 2026Elmbrook , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 1 Apr 2026Chyryn , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 1 Apr 2026St Bartholemews Church , King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PB
Received 1 Apr 2026Sainsbury's, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 1 Apr 20266 Summerhill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UR
Received 1 Apr 2026Abbotsleigh , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 1 Apr 20262 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NA
Received 1 Apr 20266 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Apr 202621 Sunnyside , Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UN
Received 1 Apr 20265 Batstone Close, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PE
Received 1 Apr 2026Former Jollys Shop, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 1 Apr 2026Unit 7 , Haydon Industrial Estate, Haydon, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RD
Received 1 Apr 2026270 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2ES
Received 2 Apr 2026Second Floor, 12 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 2 Apr 202613 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 2 Apr 202618 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 2 Apr 2026Home Farm , Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UB
Received 2 Apr 202643 Dunster Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1WB
Received 2 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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