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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60,262 approved · 8,204 refused · 5,579 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Witney Close, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DX
Received 27 Jan 202336 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 27 Jan 20231 Mount Beacon Place , Richmond Hill, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SP
Received 27 Jan 20235 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 27 Jan 2023The Old Priory Hotel, The Priory, 19 Church Square, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HX
Received 27 Jan 202328 Norman Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BH
Received 27 Jan 2023Bloomfield Bowling Club, 98 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SD
Received 27 Jan 202320 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PA
Received 27 Jan 202387 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LN
Received 27 Jan 2023Dale Cottage , Charlcombe Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DR
Received 27 Jan 2023Flat 2, 15 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 27 Jan 2023Hunstrete House , Hunstrete, Marksbury, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NS
Received 27 Jan 2023Welton Baptist Church, West Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TP
Received 27 Jan 2023Welton Baptist Church, West Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TP
Received 27 Jan 2023Wellfield House, Parkhouse Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SG
Received 30 Jan 2023Rose Cottage , Rectory Farm Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DU
Received 30 Jan 2023Rock Cottage , Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BB
Received 30 Jan 2023Parcel 5900, Hunstrete, Marksbury, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 2023Maisonette, 6 Lansdown Place West, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EZ
Received 30 Jan 2023Hunters Quest , Iford Close, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BD
Received 30 Jan 202336 Upper East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LP
Received 30 Jan 2023The Old Orchard , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PU
Received 30 Jan 2023Belluton Yard, Belluton Farm, Stanton Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 2023Belluton Yard, Belluton Farm, Stanton Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 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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