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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
71,478 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Meriden Gate , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XZ
Received 7 Jul 2026Flat 5, 10 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 7 Jul 2026Flat 5, 10 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 7 Jul 2026Bathwick St Marys C Of E Primary School , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NN
Received 7 Jul 2026Esso Service Station , Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TN
Received 7 Jul 20263 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 7 Jul 20267 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PX
Received 7 Jul 2026Grafton Lodge , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XX
Received 8 Jul 2026Grafton Lodge , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XX
Received 8 Jul 20265 Princes Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ED
Received 8 Jul 2026Courtyard Flat, 1 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 8 Jul 2026Dower House , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AD
Received 8 Jul 202619 Rotcombe Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JP
Received 8 Jul 2026Parcel 0031, Breach Hill Common, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Jul 2026Bassett Barn , School Place, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BG
Received 9 Jul 20263 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 9 Jul 20263 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 9 Jul 2026Ash Ridge , New Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JH
Received 9 Jul 202697 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XN
Received 9 Jul 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 9 Jul 2026Thrubwell Farmhouse, Thrubwell Farm, Thrubwell Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 5AW
Received 9 Jul 2026Basement, 21 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LP
Received 9 Jul 20263 Malvern Terrace , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JT
Received 9 Jul 2026The Tithe Barn , Sandy Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EL
Received 9 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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