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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 21 Sept 202648 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QF
Received 21 Sept 2026Knights Folly Farm, Woollard Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QT
Received 21 Sept 2026Knights Folly Farm, Woollard Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QT
Received 21 Sept 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 21 Sept 2026Roman Court , 1A North Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QB
Received 21 Sept 20265 Badminton Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XS
Received 21 Sept 20269 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 21 Sept 20261A Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 21 Sept 2026Court Leet Farm , Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SU
Received 21 Sept 202642 Sheridan Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QY
Received 21 Sept 202637 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PQ
Received 21 Sept 2026Hazeldene , Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5QF
Received 21 Sept 202661 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AA
Received 21 Sept 2026Smallcombe House , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EJ
Received 21 Sept 2026101 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 21 Sept 202638 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XN
Received 21 Sept 2026The Coach House , Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BX
Received 21 Sept 2026Eastern Sports Field, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Sept 2026Fishponds Cottage , Church Lane, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BD
Received 21 Sept 2026Treetops , Gloucester Road, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AD
Received 21 Sept 20261 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 21 Sept 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 21 Sept 20264 Braysdown Yard , Colliery Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LL
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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