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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
59,618 approved · 8,057 refused · 5,507 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Avondale House , Toll Bridge Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DE
Received 13 Mar 20234 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 13 Mar 20236 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EY
Received 13 Mar 2023Hillcroft , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TD
Received 13 Mar 2023Old Canal House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 13 Mar 2023Old Forge , 2 The Reddings, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AS
Received 13 Mar 2023Land At Rear Of 49-51 North Road, Farrs Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Mar 20232A Lambridge Mews, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QE
Received 13 Mar 2023Roman Lodge Farm , Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BJ
Received 13 Mar 2023Wyndrush , Tilley Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BE
Received 13 Mar 2023Fieldside , Ashton Hill, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EY
Received 13 Mar 2023Upper Tunnel Farm, Browney Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8RD
Received 13 Mar 2023138 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DD
Received 13 Mar 2023Field Cottage , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 13 Mar 2023Sunnyside , Bath Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QZ
Received 13 Mar 20233 Rose Cottages , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EQ
Received 13 Mar 20234 Lower East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AN
Received 13 Mar 2023Stonewold , Hook, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0NE
Received 13 Mar 2023Flat 1, 2 - 4 High Street, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1DQ
Received 13 Mar 2023Flat 1, 2 - 4 High Street, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1DQ
Received 13 Mar 2023Church Farm, Church Lane, Stanton Prior, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HT
Received 13 Mar 2023Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UD
Received 10 Mar 2023Site Of Hinton Garage, Albion Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Mar 202342 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LH
Received 13 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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