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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Goblin Combe , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HW
Received 24 Sept 2026Parcel 7800, Bifield Road, Bristol, Bristol,
Received 24 Sept 2026Barn Close Cottage, The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AJ
Received 24 Sept 2026Barn Close Cottage, The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AJ
Received 24 Sept 2026Ground Floor, 7 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RU
Received 24 Sept 2026Ground Floor, 7 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RU
Received 24 Sept 202690 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 24 Sept 2026Fairview House , Harptree Hill, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EH
Received 24 Sept 202615 Apsley Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LP
Received 24 Sept 2026Cleveland Court , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JY
Received 24 Sept 2026Rosemount Cottage , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LP
Received 24 Sept 2026Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Sept 20264 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 24 Sept 202642 High Street, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 24 Sept 2026The Paddocks , Timsbury Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DA
Received 24 Sept 202620 Argyle Terrace, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DF
Received 24 Sept 202615 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 25 Sept 2026Salcombe Dairy, 9 - 10 Pulteney Bridge, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AY
Received 25 Sept 2026210 Whiteway Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RJ
Received 25 Sept 2026Garages And Parking Area, Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Sept 2026Hayesland House, Hayesfield Park, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QE
Received 24 Sept 2026Double Hill Farm, Double Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PT
Received 23 Sept 2026Double Hill Farm, Double Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PT
Received 23 Sept 202627 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 25 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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