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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
71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Shelley Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RJ
Received 21 Jul 2026Beazer House, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Jul 2026Great Barn Court Block Two, Dane's Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Jul 202613 Upper Hedgemead Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NE
Received 22 Jul 202625 Fairfield Park Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JP
Received 22 Jul 2026The Inn, The Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WG
Received 22 Jul 2026First Strip, Detached Gardens, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Jul 20266 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 22 Jul 202637 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RG
Received 23 Jul 2026Greenacres , Bonhill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TS
Received 23 Jul 202650 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LW
Received 23 Jul 202616 Oakfield Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1JQ
Received 23 Jul 202637 Devonshire Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UD
Received 23 Jul 2026Knoll Farm , White Ox Mead Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PL
Received 23 Jul 202616 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 23 Jul 2026Grass Lands , Lower Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5QP
Received 23 Jul 2026Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jul 2026Lower Tunley Farm , Stoneage Lane, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DS
Received 23 Jul 2026Football Ground, Recreation Ground, Church Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AA
Received 23 Jul 202679 Queen's Drive, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PB
Received 23 Jul 20261 Drake Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NX
Received 23 Jul 2026Wellow Trekking Centre, Little Horse Croft Farm, Ford Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QF
Received 23 Jul 2026St Marks C Of E School , Bay Tree Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6ND
Received 24 Jul 202628 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PZ
Received 24 Jul 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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