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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
56,507 approved · 7,385 refused · 5,235 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 East Close, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QD
Received 10 Feb 2023Land Adjacent To Meadow Barn, Wick Lane, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Feb 2023Storage Yard Adjacent To Argyle Works , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DB
Received 10 Feb 2023First Floor, 13 Russell Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QF
Received 10 Feb 2023Garage Blocks, Ambleside Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Feb 202339 Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PJ
Received 13 Feb 2023Granary Cottage, The Old Bakery, Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RB
Received 13 Feb 20231 Chew Court Farm, Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SF
Received 13 Feb 2023Leigh Farm , Old Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BA
Received 13 Feb 202329 Castle Gardens, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AN
Received 13 Feb 2023Littlecourt , 3 Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AS
Received 13 Feb 2023Land And Buildings North Of 29, Kelston Mills, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Feb 2023Summerfield Coach House, 7 Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AS
Received 13 Feb 2023Newlands , Wellow Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SU
Received 13 Feb 202319 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 10 Feb 2023The Royal High School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SZ
Received 13 Feb 2023Warehouse, Batch Farm, Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PJ
Received 13 Feb 20234 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 13 Feb 2023Land At Rear Of Romway, Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Feb 2023Site Of Hinton Garage, Albion Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Feb 2023Southleigh Farm , Birchwood Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NF
Received 14 Feb 2023Beech Cottage , 15 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 14 Feb 202348 North Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QQ
Received 14 Feb 20237 Bloomfield Grove, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BZ
Received 14 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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