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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
59,406 approved · 8,002 refused · 5,488 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
89 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PS
Received 3 Mar 202324 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 3 Mar 2023Bloomfield House, 146 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AS
Received 3 Mar 2023Gloucester House, The Royal High School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Mar 2023Parcel 6034, North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Mar 20237 St John's Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BN
Received 6 Mar 2023Garden Flat, 11 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AL
Received 6 Mar 2023Park Farm , Norton Lane, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HA
Received 6 Mar 2023Flat 1, 8 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 6 Mar 202311 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EE
Received 6 Mar 2023The Rookery , High Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AX
Received 6 Mar 202327A Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AB
Received 6 Mar 2023High Beech , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LP
Received 6 Mar 20232 Pine Walk, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TQ
Received 6 Mar 2023Unit 8a And 9a, Red Lion Quarry, Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2PP
Received 6 Mar 20235 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 6 Mar 202311 The Brambles, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TT
Received 3 Mar 2023Parcel 5937, Wells Road, Dundry, Bristol, North Somerset,
Received 6 Mar 20237 Raglans Terrace , Ragland Lane, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HR
Received 6 Mar 2023First Floor, 6 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 6 Mar 2023Rspca Bath Cats & Dogs Home , The Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AZ
Received 6 Mar 2023Moores Cottage, 22 Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 3 Mar 20233 Rockliffe Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QP
Received 6 Mar 2023Cleeve Court Care Home , Cleeve Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RS
Received 6 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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