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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
61,753 approved · 8,531 refused · 5,713 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Portland Villa , Portland Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SJ
Received 23 Mar 2023Lakeside Barn, Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XJ
Received 23 Mar 2023Barn Cottage, Old Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AH
Received 23 Mar 202344 King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PB
Received 23 Mar 202344 Tyning End, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AW
Received 24 Mar 202315 St Christopher's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RG
Received 24 Mar 202313 Somerset Way, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7YU
Received 24 Mar 2023Lobbington Cottage , Chew Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UE
Received 24 Mar 2023High Meadow , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BA
Received 24 Mar 2023Freshford Football Ground, Abbey Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Mar 2023Warners Farm, Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SS
Received 24 Mar 202315 Holcombe Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UL
Received 24 Mar 2023Broadview, 83 - 84 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AU
Received 24 Mar 2023Broadview, 83 - 84 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AU
Received 24 Mar 2023Springfield House , Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 24 Mar 2023Eastern House , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 24 Mar 20238 Jesse Hughes Court, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BE
Received 27 Mar 2023Manor Cottage, 57A - 57B Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RS
Received 27 Mar 2023Ball Courts, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Mar 202320 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UJ
Received 27 Mar 202350 Circus Mews, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PW
Received 27 Mar 2023Oriel Dene , Horsecombe Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QP
Received 27 Mar 2023The Grove , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LR
Received 27 Mar 2023Highmere , 32 Upper East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LP
Received 27 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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