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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Thermae Bath Spa , Hot Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SJ
Received 6 Oct 202630 Seymour Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DZ
Received 6 Oct 2026St Cuthberts , 20 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TU
Received 6 Oct 202621 Sydenham Buildings, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BS
Received 5 Oct 2026Flat 1, Entry Hill House, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 6 Oct 2026Flat 1, Entry Hill House, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 6 Oct 2026Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Sept 2026The Urban Garden , Drive Through Royal Victoria Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LZ
Received 6 Oct 2026Widcombe Hill House , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 6 Oct 202610 Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 6 Oct 2026Wyld Thyme, 37 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 7 Oct 2026Wyndrush , Tilley Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BE
Received 7 Oct 2026Ashleas , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NN
Received 7 Oct 20267 Nelson Villas, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BD
Received 7 Oct 202615 - 17 Trim Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HA
Received 7 Oct 2026Victoria Cottage , Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DX
Received 7 Oct 2026Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ET
Received 7 Oct 2026Kiki Cottage, The Shallows, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DA
Received 7 Oct 2026Bramble Cottage , North Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JH
Received 7 Oct 202612 Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BJ
Received 8 Oct 20262 Lansdown Cottages , Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BS
Received 8 Oct 2026Priors Croft , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JF
Received 8 Oct 202645 Lockingwell Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2HH
Received 8 Oct 2026Cooper And Tanner, 14 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HP
Received 8 Oct 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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