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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
61,862 approved · 8,561 refused · 5,726 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Winterfield Park, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RY
Received 28 Mar 2023140 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EJ
Received 28 Mar 202315 Eden Park Drive, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JH
Received 29 Mar 2023St Andrews Church Hall, Silver Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RE
Received 28 Mar 202316 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BP
Received 28 Mar 2023Stratton House , 16 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 29 Mar 2023Block 16 North Wing, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 29 Mar 202345 Ivy Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AJ
Received 29 Mar 2023Hillside , Bannerdown Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NE
Received 29 Mar 202376 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PT
Received 29 Mar 2023Meadow Court, Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Mar 2023Brompton House , St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PT
Received 29 Mar 2023Bus Terminal, 1 Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SS
Received 29 Mar 2023Street Record, Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Mar 202376 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LN
Received 29 Mar 20237 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 29 Mar 20237 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 29 Mar 2023130 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EJ
Received 29 Mar 2023Garage Block Between Grosvenor House And Coach Cottage, Ringswell Gardens, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Mar 20239 The Beeches, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UX
Received 29 Mar 202370 Roundhill Park, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NN
Received 30 Mar 202315 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 30 Mar 2023Bonnie Banks , Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AE
Received 30 Mar 2023Monk's Barn , Tucking Mill Lane, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DA
Received 30 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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