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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
60,165 approved · 8,182 refused · 5,572 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PZ
Received 24 Jan 20234 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PZ
Received 24 Jan 2023Bittern Barn , North Wick, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NP
Received 24 Jan 20239 Hansford Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LW
Received 24 Jan 2023White Cross Farm, Bristol Road, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TJ
Received 23 Jan 202321 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DF
Received 24 Jan 20234 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 24 Jan 20234 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 24 Jan 2023Upper Floor Offices, 15 Kingsmead Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AE
Received 24 Jan 2023Food Machinery 2000 Ltd , Comfortable Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AJ
Received 24 Jan 2023Highbanks , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 24 Jan 20235 Somer Ridge, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2FB
Received 24 Jan 2023Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jan 2023119 Charlton Park, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BP
Received 24 Jan 20235 Alexandra Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PW
Received 24 Jan 202311 Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 24 Jan 202321 Sunnyside , Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UN
Received 24 Jan 202347 Longfellow Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SJ
Received 25 Jan 2023Greystones , Upper Stanton, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EG
Received 25 Jan 202344 Tyning End, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AW
Received 25 Jan 2023Old Stables , 55 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RS
Received 25 Jan 2023Rosemount , Ham Hill, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BA
Received 25 Jan 2023Upper Floor Offices, 15 Kingsmead Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AE
Received 24 Jan 20232 Walmsley Terrace , Walmsley Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DW
Received 25 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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