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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
59,713 approved · 8,086 refused · 5,518 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 2001 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
95 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RQ
Received 6 Jan 2023River House , Friary Wood Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UE
Received 6 Jan 2023Sewage Works, Access Road To Sewage Works, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PW
Received 6 Jan 2023Commercial Parking Site, Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2023North Range, Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2023Old Apple , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LA
Received 6 Jan 202343 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RG
Received 6 Jan 2023Briarsway , Tuckers Lane, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PB
Received 9 Jan 2023Manvers Hall , Old Orchard Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JU
Received 9 Jan 2023The Courtyard, The Street, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AR
Received 9 Jan 20231 Woodside Cottages, Kilkenny Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2SJ
Received 9 Jan 2023Parcel 0006, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jan 2023Telecommunication Mast Bs0203, Pitt's Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jan 202310 Eagle Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HL
Received 6 Jan 2023Rosario's, 18 Northumberland Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AR
Received 9 Jan 2023Coley Cottage, Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 9 Jan 20238 Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JY
Received 9 Jan 2023Kingswood School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 9 Jan 2023Playing Fields At Rear Of Lansdown Park, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jan 2023Kingswood School Upper Sports Fields, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jan 2023Ashton House , Ashton Hill, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EX
Received 9 Jan 202397 Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QQ
Received 9 Jan 20238 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SH
Received 9 Jan 2023Beaumont House , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RD
Received 9 Jan 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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