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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
56,278 approved · 7,333 refused · 5,211 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Dec 2003 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
179 Charlton Park, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BR
Received 1 Feb 202312A Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AS
Received 1 Feb 2023Charmydown Barn, Charmydown Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Feb 2023Charmydown Barn, Charmydown Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Feb 2023Flat 3, 10 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QX
Received 1 Feb 2023Flat 3, 10 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QX
Received 1 Feb 202319 Larkhall Place, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SF
Received 1 Feb 2023Flat 1, Vale Lodge, Weston Park West, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AR
Received 1 Feb 20232 Lansdown Terrace, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BR
Received 1 Feb 202321 Sunnyside , Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UN
Received 2 Feb 20236 Lyndhurst Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JH
Received 2 Feb 202334 Orwell Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QB
Received 2 Feb 202322 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 2 Feb 2023Red Lion , The Street, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UT
Received 2 Feb 20235 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 2 Feb 2023Vine House , Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UW
Received 2 Feb 2023Parcel 3511, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Feb 2023Lower Tunley Farm , Stoneage Lane, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DS
Received 2 Feb 2023Basement, 68 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AR
Received 2 Feb 20237 Mendip Green, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4WS
Received 2 Feb 2023Chez Nous , Peterside, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AB
Received 2 Feb 202313 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 2 Feb 2023Wansdyke House , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AS
Received 2 Feb 2023Tanglewood , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LS
Received 2 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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