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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
59,299 approved · 7,979 refused · 5,476 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AJ
Received 2 Mar 20232 Clifton Villas , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 2 Mar 2023St Nicholas Primary School , Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QH
Received 2 Mar 2023Optima Products, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Mar 20234 Combeside, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LU
Received 2 Mar 20235 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 1 Mar 2023Land East Of Fosseway Cottages, Welton Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Mar 202314 Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PJ
Received 1 Mar 2023Loch Fyne Fish Restaurant, 24 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 28 Feb 2023108 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TH
Received 1 Mar 2023Lansdown House, Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 1 Mar 2023Culverhayes Care Centre , Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AY
Received 2 Mar 2023Unit A, Upper Conygre, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Mar 2023The Old Post Office , St Julian's Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8NB
Received 2 Mar 202324 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 2 Mar 202324 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 2 Mar 202329 Manor Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RA
Received 3 Mar 2023Moores Cottage , 22 Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 3 Mar 2023Barnbridge House , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 3 Mar 202316 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 3 Mar 20235 Church Square, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HX
Received 2 Mar 2023Box House, 1 Stoneleigh, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SD
Received 3 Mar 20238 Barrow Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TD
Received 3 Mar 2023Ground Floor, 7 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UG
Received 3 Mar 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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