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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
60,388 approved · 8,234 refused · 5,587 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Chivers Street, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BH
Received 18 Apr 202317 Lynfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4ER
Received 18 Apr 202323 Wellow Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8JQ
Received 18 Apr 202355 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 18 Apr 2023King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 18 Apr 2023St Lea, Eckweek Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EQ
Received 18 Apr 20232 Cleveland Place East, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DJ
Received 18 Apr 20232 Cleveland Place East, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DJ
Received 18 Apr 2023Second Floor, 36 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 19 Apr 2023Second Floor, 36 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 19 Apr 2023Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases , Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 19 Apr 20234 Florida Terrace, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AE
Received 19 Apr 2023Coombs Creek, Old Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AH
Received 19 Apr 202354 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BX
Received 19 Apr 2023Fringethorpe , Freshford Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TY
Received 19 Apr 2023Midford Manor Care Home, Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RE
Received 19 Apr 2023All Saints , 1 St Lawrence Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AN
Received 19 Apr 2023All Saints , 1 St Lawrence Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AN
Received 19 Apr 202383 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LJ
Received 20 Apr 20233 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 20 Apr 20232 Westhall Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BQ
Received 20 Apr 202345 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RS
Received 20 Apr 20231 Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Apr 2023Bath Orthodontics, Waterside Court, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NR
Received 20 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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