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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59,170 approved · 7,957 refused · 5,471 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Langdon Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LS
Received 27 Feb 2023Ground Floor Flat, 42 Lorne Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BZ
Received 27 Feb 2023Barton Meade House , 126 Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QS
Received 27 Feb 2023Barton Meade House , 126 Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QS
Received 27 Feb 202318 Churchways, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PL
Received 27 Feb 202310 Northmead Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2RS
Received 27 Feb 2023Beckford Tower , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BH
Received 27 Feb 2023Chivers House , Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 27 Feb 20232 Ashleigh Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7QD
Received 27 Feb 2023101 Charlton Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AQ
Received 27 Feb 2023Midway, Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AN
Received 27 Feb 2023Garden Flat, 7 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 27 Feb 2023Dunbar , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RU
Received 27 Feb 2023Pulteney Hotel , 14 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HA
Received 28 Feb 2023Proposed Regeneration Site, Roseberry Road, Twerton, Bath,
Received 28 Feb 2023Unit 1 Wetherspoons King Of Wessex, Kingsmead Leisure Complex, 5 - 10 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 28 Feb 202322 Arlington Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PG
Received 28 Feb 2023196 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EN
Received 28 Feb 202340 Third Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NY
Received 28 Feb 2023Mill Place, Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4ER
Received 28 Feb 2023288 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 28 Feb 202335 Ringwood Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JL
Received 28 Feb 2023Loch Fyne Fish Restaurant, 24 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 28 Feb 202372 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RG
Received 28 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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