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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
63,039 approved · 8,789 refused · 5,828 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 1998 to 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PA
Received 27 Jul 20231 Upper Hedgemead Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NE
Received 27 Jul 20233 St Mary's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BR
Received 27 Jul 20233 St Mary's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BR
Received 27 Jul 2023Charlcombe Lodge, Colliers Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DW
Received 27 Jul 202312 Highfield Close, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EQ
Received 27 Jul 2023Somerdale Pavilion, Tiberius Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FF
Received 27 Jul 2023Bengrove House , Bengrove, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PH
Received 28 Jul 202383 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PJ
Received 28 Jul 2023Flat 31, Bedford Court, Bedford Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PH
Received 28 Jul 2023108 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AR
Received 28 Jul 202312 Lower Camden Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JJ
Received 28 Jul 202339 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DS
Received 28 Jul 2023276A Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jul 2023Brook Cottage, Whitecross Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AA
Received 28 Jul 202312 Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EQ
Received 27 Jul 2023Former Midland Railway Osborne Road To Station Road, Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Jul 202330 Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EQ
Received 27 Jul 2023Street Record, Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Jul 2023Westover , Bradford Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SD
Received 28 Jul 202351 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 28 Jul 202351 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 28 Jul 2023Maywood , 14 Flatwoods Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AQ
Received 28 Jul 202324 Church Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BU
Received 28 Jul 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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