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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
59,058 approved · 7,934 refused · 5,462 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jan 2002 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Tyning Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HL
Received 22 Feb 2023Brooklyn Cottage , The Street, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AL
Received 22 Feb 202336 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 22 Feb 20234 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 22 Feb 202325 Upper East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LP
Received 22 Feb 202325 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ED
Received 23 Feb 20238 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PW
Received 23 Feb 2023113 Nelson Ward Drive, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3FS
Received 23 Feb 2023Claremount , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 23 Feb 20232 Chaucer Villas , Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QY
Received 23 Feb 2023113 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 23 Feb 202310 St Luke's Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BB
Received 23 Feb 2023186 Park Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AX
Received 23 Feb 2023The Coach House , Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BE
Received 23 Feb 20233 Duchy Cottages, Pitway Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TU
Received 23 Feb 2023Coromandel Heights , Camden Row, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LB
Received 23 Feb 2023Greenacre Farm, Litton Lane, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AY
Received 23 Feb 202311 Seymour Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DY
Received 23 Feb 202352A Specklemead, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7ND
Received 23 Feb 202321 Kensington Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LH
Received 24 Feb 202345 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 24 Feb 20235 Westwoods, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7QE
Received 24 Feb 2023Food Machinery 2000 Ltd , Comfortable Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AJ
Received 24 Feb 2023St Catherine's End House, St Catherine Lane, St Catherine, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8HE
Received 22 Feb 2023Records 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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