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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
60,493 approved · 8,255 refused · 5,593 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath Orthodontics, Waterside Court, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NR
Received 20 Apr 20232B Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 21 Apr 202333 Wedgwood Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NT
Received 21 Apr 2023140 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 21 Apr 2023140 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 21 Apr 202318 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JY
Received 21 Apr 2023Greenhayes , Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DF
Received 21 Apr 20231 Bloomfield Avenue, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0LW
Received 21 Apr 202314 Underleaf Way, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SY
Received 21 Apr 2023Chew Magna County Primary School , Butham Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RQ
Received 21 Apr 2023Midford Manor Care Home , Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RE
Received 21 Apr 2023Larkhall Football Club Pavilion, Plain Ham, Valley View Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Apr 202336 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 21 Apr 2023Roseneath , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 21 Apr 2023Garden Flat, 11 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AL
Received 21 Apr 2023Connaught Mansions , Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BP
Received 21 Apr 2023The Old Brewery , Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DE
Received 21 Apr 2023The Old Brewery , Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DE
Received 21 Apr 202370 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NE
Received 24 Apr 2023Cherrywood , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 24 Apr 20231 Abbey Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NN
Received 24 Apr 202314 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BS
Received 24 Apr 202361 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LW
Received 24 Apr 2023Sunnyside, Oxney Place, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8HH
Received 24 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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