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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Land Between Somer Ridge And Monger Cottages, Monger Lane, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Aug 2026Parcel 0038, Green Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Aug 202623 Devonshire Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UB
Received 6 Aug 2026Flat 5, 22 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LY
Received 6 Aug 2026The Canon, 1 Barton Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HQ
Received 6 Aug 2026Abbotsleigh , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 6 Aug 2026Audley Lodge, 19 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Aug 202616 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NP
Received 6 Aug 2026Long House West , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JH
Received 6 Aug 20267 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JX
Received 6 Aug 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 7 Aug 2026305 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NY
Received 7 Aug 20266 The Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BU
Received 7 Aug 20266 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 7 Aug 2026Ananda , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JN
Received 7 Aug 20263 Great Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Aug 2026Flat 1, 13 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NY
Received 7 Aug 2026Court Mead , Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 7 Aug 202679 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RU
Received 10 Aug 202673 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 10 Aug 20267 St Matthew's Place , Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JJ
Received 10 Aug 202623 Holloway, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PS
Received 10 Aug 20263 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BA
Received 10 Aug 2026Montrose Cottage , 182 Publow Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HY
Received 10 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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