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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
61,377 approved · 8,462 refused · 5,687 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Thomas Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NW
Received 14 Mar 202356 Fairfield Avenue, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NJ
Received 14 Mar 202318 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 14 Mar 202361 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RX
Received 14 Mar 20234 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 15 Mar 2023The Barn , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JW
Received 15 Mar 202315 Brunswick Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PQ
Received 15 Mar 202315 Brunswick Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PQ
Received 15 Mar 202340 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TU
Received 15 Mar 202352 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PB
Received 15 Mar 2023Ee, 56 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1TG
Received 15 Mar 2023Ee, 56 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1TG
Received 15 Mar 202385 Cotswold Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DN
Received 15 Mar 2023Street Record, Burton Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Mar 2023Street Record, Burton Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Mar 2023St Marys Church, Queen Square, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EL
Received 15 Mar 2023Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UD
Received 14 Mar 2023Mill Farm , Vicarage Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4LA
Received 15 Mar 2023The Old Vicarage, The Downs, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3DD
Received 15 Mar 2023Lodge Style, Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 15 Mar 202312 Sunnybank , Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NA
Received 15 Mar 2023First Floor Front, 13 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 15 Mar 2023St Michael's Cottage , Townsend, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BH
Received 15 Mar 2023Prior Park College , Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AH
Received 16 Mar 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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