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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Joules , 12 Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AS
Received 16 Sept 2026Circus Dental Practice, 13 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ES
Received 16 Sept 2026Kilkenny House , 25 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UN
Received 16 Sept 20263 - 4 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SB
Received 16 Sept 20263 - 4 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SB
Received 16 Sept 2026Mountain Ash Farm , Wick Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XD
Received 16 Sept 202626 Solsbury Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HH
Received 16 Sept 2026Woodside House, Staples Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WJ
Received 16 Sept 2026Bath & West Buildings , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EG
Received 16 Sept 202657 Roundhill Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1JT
Received 16 Sept 20262 Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EA
Received 16 Sept 20263 Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EA
Received 16 Sept 20268 Penn Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RZ
Received 16 Sept 202682 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AU
Received 16 Sept 202620 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 16 Sept 2026Hayes Lodge, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PU
Received 16 Sept 202611 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QN
Received 17 Sept 2026King Edwards School , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HU
Received 17 Sept 2026Larchwood , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AE
Received 17 Sept 202616 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 17 Sept 2026Lower Apartment B, The Old School House, Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 17 Sept 2026Grafton Lodge , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XX
Received 17 Sept 2026Grafton Lodge , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XX
Received 17 Sept 2026Highfields, 84 Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2UF
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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