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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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11 Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 14 Sept 2026Manor House East , Manor Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DA
Received 14 Sept 202612 Brookfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JF
Received 14 Sept 2026The Old Crown , 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 14 Sept 2026The Old Crown , 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 14 Sept 2026Bath Western Riverside Development Site Phase 2, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Sept 20261A Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 15 Sept 2026Flat 1 Basement, 13 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 15 Sept 2026Flat 1 Basement, 13 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 15 Sept 202693 Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AU
Received 15 Sept 2026Braysdown Stables Ltd , Gassons, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8FE
Received 15 Sept 2026Grog, 16 Margaret's Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LP
Received 15 Sept 202613 Bloomfield Grove, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BZ
Received 15 Sept 20267 Beechen Cliff Villas , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QR
Received 15 Sept 202614 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ES
Received 15 Sept 2026The Pump House, 40 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PW
Received 15 Sept 202654 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 15 Sept 2026Unit 1-4, Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Sept 2026Land To Rear Of 190, Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Sept 2026Ailsa Craig , 21 Meadow View, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QT
Received 16 Sept 2026Inglesview , Rectory Farm Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DU
Received 16 Sept 20261 Fairfield Terrace, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8HL
Received 16 Sept 2026Block 15 William Budd Oncology, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 16 Sept 2026Berkeley House , The Square, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BH
Received 16 Sept 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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