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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
60,046 approved · 8,166 refused · 5,555 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Maple Grove, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AF
Received 23 Jan 2023The Lake House , Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DT
Received 23 Jan 202316 Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 23 Jan 20237 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 23 Jan 202353 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SZ
Received 23 Jan 2023Land Rear Of Dixon Gardens, Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jan 2023Land Rear Of Dixon Gardens, Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jan 2023Breaches Farm House, Cherwell Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QU
Received 23 Jan 2023Heighgrove Barn , Scumbrum Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JN
Received 23 Jan 2023Pagans Hill Farm , Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UN
Received 23 Jan 2023Sewage Works, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jan 202352 Stonehouse Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DW
Received 23 Jan 2023Quebec Social Centre , Quebec, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DN
Received 23 Jan 2023Bath Foyer , 80 Dominion Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DF
Received 23 Jan 2023Fielding House, Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jan 202311 Winscombe Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2HR
Received 23 Jan 2023135 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AN
Received 23 Jan 2023The Prince Of Wales, Dunkerton Hill, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jan 202319 Manor Terrace , Manor Road, Writhlington, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3NF
Received 24 Jan 2023The Hexagon , Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RS
Received 24 Jan 202336 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TF
Received 24 Jan 202336 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TF
Received 24 Jan 20236 Cedar Villas, Cedar Walk, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HW
Received 24 Jan 2023Romsdale, 5 Copse Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3TH
Received 24 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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