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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
62,470 approved · 8,661 refused · 5,772 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Nov 2000 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 - 4A Burton Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BN
Received 6 Jul 20234 - 4A Burton Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BN
Received 6 Jul 202315 Lulworth Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2PX
Received 6 Jul 2023Sainsbury's Supermarkets Limited, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 6 Jul 2023Flat 1, 25 Green Park, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HZ
Received 6 Jul 2023Tesco Express, Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8DN
Received 6 Jul 2023Keverstone Lodge , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LB
Received 6 Jul 202318 Entry Hill Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ND
Received 7 Jul 202313 Westhall Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BQ
Received 7 Jul 2023165 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QZ
Received 7 Jul 2023Basement Flat, 4 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 7 Jul 2023Meadow View , Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BB
Received 7 Jul 2023Territorial Army, T A Centre, Ashmead Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SX
Received 7 Jul 2023114 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DJ
Received 7 Jul 2023Kilowatt House , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HW
Received 7 Jul 202343 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PE
Received 7 Jul 2023Kings Court , Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 7 Jul 2023Kings Court , Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 7 Jul 2023Windsor Bridge, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 7 Jul 2023Pottern House, Marksbury Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EN
Received 7 Jul 2023Mill Barn, Millards Hill, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Jul 20236 Claremont Place , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 10 Jul 202374A Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RU
Received 10 Jul 20239 Marden Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RW
Received 10 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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