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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PS
Received 17 Sept 202611 Chelsea Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DU
Received 17 Sept 2026Gloden Tanning Centre , 26A Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LJ
Received 17 Sept 20261 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 17 Sept 2026Lower Shoscombe Farm , Rag Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LT
Received 17 Sept 2026Rectory Cottage , Anchor Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 17 Sept 202639 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 17 Sept 202639 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 17 Sept 2026Greystones, Homefield Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EG
Received 17 Sept 2026Basement Ground Floor, 7 Walcot Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AB
Received 17 Sept 202616 Denmark Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RE
Received 17 Sept 2026Flat 5, 11 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 18 Sept 202619 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 18 Sept 20265 Westfield Close, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EA
Received 18 Sept 202617 Lower Camden Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JJ
Received 18 Sept 2026Holiday Inn Express Hotel, Brougham Hayes, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QU
Received 18 Sept 2026Glencrest , Hayesfield Park, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QE
Received 18 Sept 2026The Old Rectory , Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 18 Sept 20268 Belgrave Place, Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JL
Received 18 Sept 202619 Derwent Grove, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NT
Received 18 Sept 2026Underdown Barn , Bath Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QZ
Received 18 Sept 2026Charlton House Care Home , Hawthorns Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1BF
Received 18 Sept 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 21 Sept 202622 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 21 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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