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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
56,647 approved · 7,416 refused · 5,245 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
152A Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SE
Received 15 Feb 2023Bungalow Farm , East Harptree Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BQ
Received 15 Feb 2023Hill House, Winterfield Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7QR
Received 15 Feb 2023Foxdale, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 15 Feb 2023Meadow Farm , Ruett Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UP
Received 15 Feb 2023Beechwood, The Avenue, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HU
Received 13 Feb 202344 First Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NW
Received 15 Feb 202371 Hillcrest Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1HD
Received 15 Feb 2023Charlton House , Penn Hill Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SJ
Received 15 Feb 20238 The Havory, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RR
Received 15 Feb 2023The Old Orchard , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PU
Received 15 Feb 2023Dubbary , 54 Kipling Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RD
Received 15 Feb 202384 West Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QD
Received 15 Feb 2023Wentworth House Hotel, 106 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AP
Received 16 Feb 202311 Edward Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DU
Received 16 Feb 2023The Scala , Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 16 Feb 20235 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Feb 20235 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Feb 2023St Mary's Church , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TQ
Received 16 Feb 2023Broadacres, 15 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 16 Feb 20236 The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 16 Feb 2023South View, Greenleigh Farm, Wells Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8FH
Received 16 Feb 2023Beechlands , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 16 Feb 2023New House , High Street, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HX
Received 16 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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