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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
60,596 approved · 8,282 refused · 5,602 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 27 Apr 2023280A High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 27 Apr 2023Lansdown Croft, Hamilton Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SB
Received 27 Apr 2023229 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AY
Received 27 Apr 2023Miles House, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 27 Apr 2023Slug And Lettuce, 5 - 6 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 27 Apr 2023Slug And Lettuce, 5 - 6 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 27 Apr 202339 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DS
Received 27 Apr 2023Gay Street Dental Surgery, 25 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PD
Received 28 Apr 20237 Westwoods, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7QE
Received 28 Apr 202314 Springfield Buildings, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JB
Received 28 Apr 20237 Ainslie's Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HT
Received 28 Apr 202340 Walnut Buildings, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JL
Received 28 Apr 2023Fosse Acre , Old Fossway, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BR
Received 28 Apr 2023Woodbarn Farm , Denny Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SZ
Received 28 Apr 2023Flat 1, Nelson House, 15 High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BZ
Received 28 Apr 20231 Walcot Gate, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5UG
Received 28 Apr 20237 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 28 Apr 20237 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 28 Apr 2023City Sight Seeing, Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 28 Apr 2023Brook Lodge, 199 London Road East, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NB
Received 28 Apr 2023City Sight Seeing, Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 28 Apr 2023City Sight Seeing, Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 28 Apr 2023The Glebe House , 9A School Place, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BG
Received 28 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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