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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71,483 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Trenchard Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DT
Received 2 Apr 2026Cottage Farm , Timsbury Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HL
Received 2 Apr 202648 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RJ
Received 2 Apr 2026Glanville Farm , Lower Road, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AT
Received 2 Apr 202642 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DR
Received 2 Apr 202642 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DR
Received 2 Apr 2026Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Apr 2026Parcel 9661, Binces Lodge Lane, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Apr 2026Eastbrook Barn, Norton Lane, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QR
Received 2 Apr 2026Knightsfield , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 2 Apr 202616 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AT
Received 3 Apr 202645 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BS
Received 3 Apr 2026Westside House , Quarry Rock Gardens, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EF
Received 3 Apr 2026Little Oak, Clearbrook Farm, Midford Hill, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DE
Received 3 Apr 20262 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EW
Received 3 Apr 2026Avalon , Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 6 Apr 202694 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LT
Received 6 Apr 2026Park House , Station Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BN
Received 6 Apr 202673 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RG
Received 6 Apr 2026Flat 1, 13 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LL
Received 7 Apr 202690 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 7 Apr 20264 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 7 Apr 2026Wick Farm , Rankers Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NU
Received 7 Apr 2026Ground Floor, 1 Lansdown Place West, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EZ
Received 7 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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