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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
71,479 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
1 Tyndale , Dovers Park, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7UB
Received 10 Apr 202622 Inverness Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RX
Received 10 Apr 2026Kaliko, 6 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DA
Received 10 Apr 2026Mahe , School Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UY
Received 10 Apr 2026Pump Room & Roman Baths, Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LZ
Received 10 Apr 2026Street Record, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Apr 2026Haywards At The Grasmere, 22 - 24 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SN
Received 13 Apr 2026Site Of Former Nursery, Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Apr 202612 Stonehouse Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DP
Received 13 Apr 20261 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UG
Received 13 Apr 202614 Beaufort West, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QB
Received 13 Apr 20267 Laggan Gardens, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RX
Received 13 Apr 2026West End , Snatch Lane, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PJ
Received 13 Apr 2026Ground Floor Basement Maisonette, 19 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 13 Apr 2026Prior Park Garden Centre, Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 13 Apr 202660 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LL
Received 13 Apr 2026Rocklands , Farrington Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LP
Received 23 Jun 202617 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PZ
Received 23 Jun 20262 Lansdown Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EE
Received 23 Jun 20262 Lansdown Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EE
Received 23 Jun 2026Rock Cottage , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UF
Received 23 Jun 2026Rocklands , Farrington Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LP
Received 23 Jun 2026Site Of Former Nursery, Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 20266 Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 23 Jun 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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