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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
63,270 approved · 8,834 refused · 5,851 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 8 Aug 202326 Tyning Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HL
Received 8 Aug 2023Middle Hill Lodge, Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AF
Received 7 Aug 2023King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HU
Received 8 Aug 2023Tanglewood , Wells Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BA
Received 8 Aug 202317 Charles Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HX
Received 8 Aug 2023Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Aug 202341 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DN
Received 8 Aug 202341 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DN
Received 8 Aug 2023Orchard Cottage , Dovers Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SX
Received 8 Aug 2023The Lodge , Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LT
Received 9 Aug 202379 Ashgrove, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EG
Received 9 Aug 2023Kingston House, Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 9 Aug 202315 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 9 Aug 2023Orvidene, Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DZ
Received 9 Aug 2023Charters, 43 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 9 Aug 2023Waterworks Cottage , Charlcombe Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JZ
Received 9 Aug 2023Land To Rear Of 89A-91, Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Aug 202313 Arundel Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EF
Received 9 Aug 2023Top Flat, 21 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LP
Received 10 Aug 2023Belle Vue Farm Buildings, Hunstrete Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 2023Former Purnell Factory Development Site, Oxleaze Way, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 2023Lodge Style, Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 9 Aug 2023Parcel 2000, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 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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