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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
62,821 approved · 8,729 refused · 5,804 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hanham House , Hanham Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PF
Received 17 Jul 2023165 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QZ
Received 17 Jul 202358 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 17 Jul 2023Sandground Cottage , Wick Lane, Stanton Wick, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BZ
Received 18 Jul 202324 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HB
Received 18 Jul 202311 Powlett Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QQ
Received 18 Jul 20231 Chew Court Farm , Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SF
Received 18 Jul 2023Newbridge Primary School, Charmouth Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LL
Received 18 Jul 2023The Bird, 18 - 19 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EZ
Received 18 Jul 2023The Scala , Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 18 Jul 202315 Frys Leaze , Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NU
Received 18 Jul 202322 Rockliffe Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QP
Received 18 Jul 20233 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 18 Jul 2023Kensington House , Pensford Hill, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AA
Received 19 Jul 2023Westfield Farm , Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QW
Received 19 Jul 2023Ridgeview, 5 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 19 Jul 202318 Gladstone Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HJ
Received 19 Jul 2023Radford Hill Cottage, Radford Hill, Radford, Bristol, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XU
Received 19 Jul 2023132 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 19 Jul 20239 Faulkland Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LS
Received 19 Jul 2023Shoscombe Sewage Works, Green Street, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8NF
Received 19 Jul 2023Cafe Rouge, 15 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 19 Jul 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 19 Jul 2023Flat 1, 145A Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AL
Received 19 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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