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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59,406 approved · 8,002 refused · 5,488 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Midsomer Norton Town Council, Town Hall, The Island, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HQ
Received 6 Mar 202370 Langdon Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LT
Received 6 Mar 202370 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DA
Received 7 Mar 2023Flat 1, 18 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JZ
Received 7 Mar 202315 Williams Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5FT
Received 7 Mar 2023Field On Corner With Ferndale Road, Deadmill Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Mar 2023Court Mead , Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 7 Mar 2023Waterworks Cottage , Charlcombe Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JZ
Received 7 Mar 202334 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HY
Received 7 Mar 20239 Belgrave Terrace , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JR
Received 7 Mar 2023119 Nelson Ward Drive, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3FS
Received 7 Mar 202349 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NS
Received 3 Mar 2023Corston Lodge, Corston Drive, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BD
Received 7 Mar 2023Stables And Paddock, Hursley Hill, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QZ
Received 6 Mar 2023Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Lane, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BH
Received 6 Mar 2023King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 7 Mar 2023Parcel 4234, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Mar 2023North Range, Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Mar 2023Parcel 3511, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Mar 2023163 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NJ
Received 7 Mar 202327 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 2 Mar 2023Ministry Of Defence Storage And Distribution Centre, Pixash Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TP
Received 7 Mar 202312 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JY
Received 7 Mar 2023Tall Timbers , Pow's Hill, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XN
Received 7 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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