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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61,753 approved · 8,531 refused · 5,713 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 St John's Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BW
Received 27 Mar 2023Management Suite, 12 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AQ
Received 27 Mar 2023Hope House Centre, 10 Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3EP
Received 27 Mar 202330 The Drive, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DQ
Received 27 Mar 2023Macaulay Cottage , Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 27 Mar 2023Flat 4, 3 Cambridge Place, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 27 Mar 202326 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 27 Mar 202327 Under Knoll, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8TY
Received 27 Mar 2023The Crate , 5 High Street, Woolley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AR
Received 27 Mar 2023Ball Courts, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Mar 2023Land At Rear, Tennis Court Cottages, Tennis Court Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Mar 2023Coley Cottage, Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 28 Mar 2023Station House, Ashley Avenue, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DS
Received 28 Mar 2023Widcombe Studio , Alton Place, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PR
Received 28 Mar 20234 Cheap Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NE
Received 28 Mar 2023The Cottage , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 28 Mar 2023103 Fairfield Park Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JR
Received 28 Mar 2023Pipley Bottom Farm, North Stoke Lane, Upton Cheyney, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, BS30 6NG
Received 27 Mar 202327 Orchid Drive, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TS
Received 28 Mar 2023The Pavilion , 7 Meadows Lane, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6FB
Received 28 Mar 202330 Sheridan Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QY
Received 28 Mar 2023Unit 2, Kingsmead Leisure Complex, 5 - 10 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 28 Mar 202363 Meare Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PX
Received 28 Mar 202352 Waterford Park, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TS
Received 28 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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