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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
61,630 approved · 8,510 refused · 5,705 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Jan 2001 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Densley View , Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DP
Received 21 Mar 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 21 Mar 2023Land Adjacent To Greystones, Ashgrove, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Mar 2023The Court Rooms, Camerton Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PS
Received 21 Mar 20238 Williamstowe, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EJ
Received 21 Mar 2023Paulton Ambulance Station , Salisbury Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SB
Received 21 Mar 202342 Chilton Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DR
Received 21 Mar 2023The Saw Mills, Cleeve Hill, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Mar 2023Sofa Workshop, 21 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 21 Mar 2023Sofa Workshop, 21 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 21 Mar 2023Plumb Center , Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EU
Received 21 Mar 202332A Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 21 Mar 2023Walcot Service Station, Dover Terrace, London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PF
Received 21 Mar 202330 St Anne's Avenue, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EH
Received 21 Mar 20234 Cheap Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NE
Received 22 Mar 202390 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PB
Received 22 Mar 202316 Stanley Road West, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HU
Received 22 Mar 202315 Stanley Road West, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HU
Received 22 Mar 202355 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DF
Received 22 Mar 2023Kingston House, Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 22 Mar 2023Woodlands , Chew Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SA
Received 22 Mar 2023Church Farm House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 1 Mar 2023Byfields, Wells Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3US
Received 22 Mar 202345 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RS
Received 22 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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