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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
71,469 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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19 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6BS
Received 29 Oct 202677 Holcombe Close, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6UP
Received 29 Oct 202613 Bennett's Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, BA1 7AW
Received 29 Oct 2026The Old Coach House, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, BA2 7DL
Received 27 Oct 202633 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 29 Oct 202633 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 29 Oct 2026Land To The Rear Of 89 To123, Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath,
Received 29 Oct 2026Whatley House, Ham Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5TY
Received 29 Oct 202630 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TT
Received 29 Oct 2026Dallamore Rise, 17 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3BT
Received 29 Oct 2026Bath Recycling Centre, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3FE
Received 29 Oct 202621 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6BX
Received 29 Oct 20261 Derwent Grove, Keynsham, BS31 1NT
Received 29 Oct 202645 Triangle West, Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3JA
Received 29 Oct 2026Parcel 6100, Dunkerton Hill, Dunkerton, Bath,
Received 30 Oct 2026Parcel 3277, East Harptree Road, West Harptree, Bristol,
Received 30 Oct 2026187 Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, BA2 2JZ
Received 30 Oct 20261 Gascoyne Place, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1EY
Received 30 Oct 20264 Northfields Close, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5TE
Received 30 Oct 2026Red Lion, High Street, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7NW
Received 30 Oct 2026Lavender House, 22D Wells Road, Westfield, BA3 3RL
Received 30 Oct 20265 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2LN
Received 30 Oct 202638 Kipling Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, BA2 4RB
Received 2 Nov 2026Stonecrop, 1 Lower Mount Pleasant, Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, BA2 7UB
Received 2 Nov 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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