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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
61,166 approved · 8,414 refused · 5,660 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 South Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PY
Received 19 May 2023Kensington Chapel, Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6FW
Received 19 May 2023Kingswood School, Westwood, Fonthill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RQ
Received 19 May 2023Chewton Place, Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 May 2023Chewton Place, Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 May 2023Second Floor, 15 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PZ
Received 19 May 2023Long House Farm, Thrubwell Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 5AW
Received 19 May 2023High Orchard , 7 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 19 May 2023Street Record, Fosse Green, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 May 2023The Old Post Office, High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 May 2023Land Next To Sewage Works, Avon Lane, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 May 2023Minerva Bath Rowing Club, Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 May 20236 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 19 May 2023Piccadilly House, Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 19 May 202318 Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HG
Received 19 May 202318 Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HG
Received 19 May 202332 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TF
Received 22 May 2023The Lodge , Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SW
Received 22 May 20232 Mill Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EN
Received 22 May 20232 Mill Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EN
Received 22 May 20235 Stoneable Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JR
Received 22 May 202337 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BX
Received 22 May 2023Hill House , Pensford Hill, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AF
Received 22 May 202362 St Clement's Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AH
Received 19 May 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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