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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62,821 approved · 8,729 refused · 5,804 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
55 Springfield Buildings, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JB
Received 20 Jul 2023Wyndown , Upper Stanton, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EG
Received 20 Jul 202311 Dovers Park, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7UB
Received 20 Jul 2023Bell Farm , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 20 Jul 202310 Axbridge Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PW
Received 20 Jul 2023Site Of Hinton Garage, Albion Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Jul 2023Jubilee Centre, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 20 Jul 2023Widcombe Manor , Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AZ
Received 21 Jul 2023Waterside Farm, Access Road To Waterside Farm, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 5TW
Received 21 Jul 202358 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 21 Jul 2023Mount Beacon Lodge , St Stephen's Close, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PP
Received 21 Jul 2023Scout Hall , Station Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PF
Received 21 Jul 202371 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3ES
Received 21 Jul 202323 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 21 Jul 2023Bridge House , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SP
Received 21 Jul 2023Carrs Wood, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Jul 2023St Anthonys , The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AL
Received 21 Jul 2023The Scala , Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 21 Jul 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 21 Jul 20231 Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AY
Received 21 Jul 2023Parcel 9680, Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Jul 202370 West Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QD
Received 21 Jul 20231 Sion Hill Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SJ
Received 21 Jul 2023Girl Guides, 88 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BD
Received 24 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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