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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
71,474 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pump Room & Roman Baths, Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LZ
Received 2 Sept 202629 Station Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BA
Received 2 Sept 2026Brindley Cottage, 3 Foxcote View, St Julian's Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8NE
Received 2 Sept 2026Bathford House , 31 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 2 Sept 2026Garden Flat, 93 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 2 Sept 202630 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DF
Received 2 Sept 202620 Meare Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PP
Received 2 Sept 202617 Kingsmead Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AE
Received 2 Sept 2026High Hall , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JQ
Received 2 Sept 2026Bath Fire Station, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PU
Received 2 Sept 202613 Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 2 Sept 202610 Cranmore Place, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UP
Received 2 Sept 2026Empty Premises, 12 Milsom Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BZ
Received 2 Sept 2026Haybridge , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 2 Sept 202618 Vellore Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JQ
Received 3 Sept 2026Woodborough House , Access Road To Woodborough, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LQ
Received 3 Sept 20264 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BS
Received 3 Sept 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 3 Sept 202612 Staunton Fields, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QD
Received 3 Sept 2026Newbridge House , 198 Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 3 Sept 2026Parcel 0015, Red Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Sept 2026The Hawthorns , Ruett Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UP
Received 3 Sept 20261 Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8DX
Received 3 Sept 2026Warners Farm , Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SS
Received 3 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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