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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
59,936 approved · 8,144 refused · 5,544 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lysways House , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RS
Received 17 Jan 202355 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 18 Jan 202310 College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RS
Received 17 Jan 202317 Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 13 Jan 2023Tournesol , Charlcombe Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TP
Received 17 Jan 202326 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NQ
Received 18 Jan 2023Parcel 3873, Butham, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 Jan 20239 The Beeches, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UX
Received 16 Jan 2023Aston Villa, Timsbury Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HL
Received 18 Jan 202322 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 18 Jan 2023Flat 4, 20 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 18 Jan 2023West Brow , Belmont Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JR
Received 18 Jan 2023West Brow , Belmont Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JR
Received 18 Jan 2023Garden Maisonette, 10 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 18 Jan 2023Woodmans Cottage , Friary Wood Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UE
Received 18 Jan 20237 Ainslie's Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HT
Received 19 Jan 20239 Westfield Close, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EA
Received 19 Jan 2023Lawrence House, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ET
Received 19 Jan 202326 Dairy Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UP
Received 19 Jan 2023Kings Court , Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 19 Jan 2023Kings Court , Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 19 Jan 202314 Banwell Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UJ
Received 19 Jan 2023Street Record, Terrace Walk, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 2023Street Record, Terrace Walk, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 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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