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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Coach House , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 4 Aug 2026Eastern Sports Field, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Aug 2026Eastern Sports Field, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Aug 2026Keynsham Health Centre , St Clement's Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AF
Received 4 Aug 2026Basement And Ground Floor, 7 Barton Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JR
Received 4 Aug 2026Basement And Ground Floor, 7 Barton Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JR
Received 4 Aug 2026Vehicle Storage Yard, Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Aug 2026Fairfield Nurseries, Butham Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RQ
Received 4 Aug 2026Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Aug 202634 North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JE
Received 4 Aug 202674 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PT
Received 4 Aug 2026110 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TH
Received 5 Aug 2026Bath Road Hand Car Wash , Bath New Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AF
Received 5 Aug 202630 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LY
Received 5 Aug 202611 Berkeley Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2EF
Received 5 Aug 2026Eastfield , Lynbrook Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NB
Received 5 Aug 2026Bath Fire Station, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PU
Received 5 Aug 2026Peasedown Charcoal Grill And Pizza, 11 Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8HG
Received 31 Jul 2026157 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AU
Received 3 Aug 202639 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JZ
Received 5 Aug 20261 Dahlia Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NP
Received 5 Aug 2026189 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BT
Received 5 Aug 2026Cherry Tree Cottage , 2A Claverton Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DP
Received 6 Aug 20262 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JX
Received 6 Aug 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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