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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
60,262 approved · 8,204 refused · 5,579 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 6, 2 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ED
Received 30 Jan 2023Brook House, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 2023Daily Bread Bakers, 19 Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8DH
Received 30 Jan 2023Flat 1, 24 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LP
Received 30 Jan 2023Manor Farm, Millards Hill, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BW
Received 30 Jan 202367 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DF
Received 30 Jan 2023Old Coal Yard, Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 2023Nethway , Bristol Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HG
Received 30 Jan 2023Ground Floor Flat, 204 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 30 Jan 2023Ground Floor Flat, 204 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 30 Jan 2023Georges House, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 2023St Andrew's C Of E Va Primary School , Northampton Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SN
Received 30 Jan 20232 St Paul's Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AR
Received 31 Jan 2023Twerton Cemetery Lodge , Bellotts Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RT
Received 31 Jan 2023Kite Lodge , Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UW
Received 31 Jan 20233 Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AR
Received 31 Jan 2023Parcel 4062, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Jan 2023138 - 140 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BL
Received 13 Apr 202376 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DL
Received 13 Apr 202314 Lansdown View, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BG
Received 13 Apr 2023Former Radstock County Infant School, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Apr 2023Food Machinery 2000 Ltd , Comfortable Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AJ
Received 14 Apr 20238 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 14 Apr 20238 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 14 Apr 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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