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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71,478 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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 Westerleigh Villas , Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8DS
Received 13 Jul 202649 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 13 Jul 202649 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 13 Jul 202618 Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HG
Received 13 Jul 2026Image By Marko, 2 Dorset Close, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RF
Received 13 Jul 2026Woodland On West Side Of Lane, Tytherly Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jul 20263 - 4 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SB
Received 13 Jul 202612 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 13 Jul 20263 - 4 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SB
Received 14 Jul 2026Bathwick House, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 14 Jul 2026Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jul 2026Land West Of 1, Townsend, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jul 202626 Oaklands, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RW
Received 14 Jul 2026150 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AT
Received 14 Jul 2026150 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AT
Received 14 Jul 20265 Dryleaze, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2DA
Received 15 Jul 2026Bodhi House , 31A Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 15 Jul 2026110 Ambleside Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LP
Received 15 Jul 2026James House , James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BR
Received 15 Jul 2026Spring House, Paulto' Hill, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PJ
Received 13 Jul 20267 Maple Grove, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AF
Received 15 Jul 2026The Lodge, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8RD
Received 15 Jul 2026Flat 4, 2 Fountain Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DU
Received 15 Jul 202633 Greenacres, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NS
Received 16 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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