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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
71,475 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 St Mary's Buildings, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AT
Received 4 Jun 202648 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AT
Received 4 Jun 202624 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 4 Jun 2026Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Jun 2026Dumpers Cottage , Dumpers Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SS
Received 4 Jun 2026Lyncombe Court , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LR
Received 4 Jun 20266 Falconer Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NH
Received 4 Jun 202619 Summerhill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UP
Received 4 Jun 2026Basement, 8 Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 4 Jun 2026Cowleas House , Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UL
Received 4 Jun 2026Mount Beacon House , Richmond Hill, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QR
Received 4 Jun 2026Ridings , Widcombe Common, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HW
Received 5 Jun 202616 Southville Terrace, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LZ
Received 5 Jun 202611 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 5 Jun 202618 Eagle Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HL
Received 5 Jun 202678 Triangle North, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JB
Received 5 Jun 202647 Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BE
Received 5 Jun 2026Flat 7 First Floor, 14 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LR
Received 5 Jun 2026Parade Park Hotel, 8 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Jun 202619 Bay Tree Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NB
Received 5 Jun 202620 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 5 Jun 202695 Lansdown Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NB
Received 5 Jun 2026Former Jollys Shop, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 5 Jun 2026Wetherspoons, The Palladium Electric, 110 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DA
Received 5 Jun 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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