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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
63,150 approved · 8,812 refused · 5,841 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former Ministry Of Defence Foxhill Premises, Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Aug 2023Plumb Center , Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EU
Received 1 Aug 2023210 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 1 Aug 20231 Hadley Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AA
Received 1 Aug 20238 Park Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EE
Received 1 Aug 202333 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SL
Received 31 Jul 202381 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NE
Received 1 Aug 2023Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Aug 2023Tresco Cottage, Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QT
Received 31 Jul 2023Parkway , Park Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NG
Received 2 Aug 2023Vans 365, Wilmin, Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QL
Received 2 Aug 202365 St Ladoc Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EQ
Received 2 Aug 202321 Barrow Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TE
Received 2 Aug 2023Wellington House , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SP
Received 2 Aug 2023The Old Granary, Homefield Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EG
Received 2 Aug 2023Green Hedges , 5 Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 2 Aug 2023Parcel 4823, Old Dunkerton Hill, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Aug 2023Basement Flat, 16 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 2 Aug 20231 Roundhill Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1JT
Received 2 Aug 202314 St Christopher's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RG
Received 2 Aug 20234 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AS
Received 2 Aug 2023Parcel 2000, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Aug 2023Little Stoke , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DZ
Received 3 Aug 2023Woodbarn Farm , Denny Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SZ
Received 3 Aug 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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