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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
59,170 approved · 7,957 refused · 5,471 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
46 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 20 Feb 2023138 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 24 Feb 2023Home Farm , White Ox Mead, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PN
Received 24 Feb 2023Home Farm , White Ox Mead, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PN
Received 24 Feb 2023The Glebe House, 9A School Place, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BG
Received 24 Feb 2023Brook Cottage, Whitecross Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AA
Received 24 Feb 202310 Waterside Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3YG
Received 24 Feb 20237 The Weal, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4HE
Received 24 Feb 2023Regency Farm , 1 Prospect Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JD
Received 24 Feb 2023Abbey Farm , Access Road From Midford Hill To Abbey Farm, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SD
Received 24 Feb 2023Wyndcliffe , Bannerdown Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PJ
Received 24 Feb 2023Violet Bank Farm , Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 24 Feb 20238 Tamar Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1PP
Received 27 Feb 2023Easton , Bristol Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HQ
Received 27 Feb 2023Springfield House Care Home , 21 Entry Hill Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ND
Received 27 Feb 2023Gateforth , 46 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BW
Received 27 Feb 2023Fosseway , Old Fossway, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BR
Received 27 Feb 20232 The Malt Houses , Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AW
Received 27 Feb 2023Methodist Church , 50 Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TD
Received 27 Feb 2023Flat 1, 61 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 27 Feb 2023Bellfield , The Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AX
Received 27 Feb 2023Brookholme , Streamleaze, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SE
Received 27 Feb 2023Bath Cricket Club , North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 27 Feb 202315 Mountain Ash, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UU
Received 27 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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