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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
63,393 approved · 8,851 refused · 5,868 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bay Tree House , 12 Crescent Gardens, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NA
Received 10 Aug 2023Tesco Express, Georges House, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EN
Received 10 Aug 202314 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 10 Aug 2023Fords Farmhouse , Queen Charlton Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SH
Received 10 Aug 2023Fords Farmhouse , Queen Charlton Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SH
Received 10 Aug 202321 Fairfield Avenue, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NH
Received 10 Aug 20233 Bailbrook Court , Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AB
Received 10 Aug 2023The Cottage , Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EW
Received 11 Aug 2023The Cottage , Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EW
Received 11 Aug 2023Abbey Farmhouse , Camerton Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PS
Received 11 Aug 20232 Berkeley Place, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EZ
Received 11 Aug 2023Kimberley , 20 Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PP
Received 11 Aug 2023Land To Rear Of 43 Upper Oldfield Park, Junction Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Aug 2023Homefield, Whitehouse Lane, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4PS
Received 11 Aug 2023Garden Flat, 18 Chilton Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DR
Received 14 Aug 2023Cherrywood , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 14 Aug 2023287 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NU
Received 14 Aug 2023Garden Flat, 18 Chilton Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DR
Received 14 Aug 2023Garage Block, Millmead Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Aug 202311 Clare Gardens, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2SD
Received 14 Aug 2023216 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 14 Aug 20235 Wellow Brook Meadow, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BQ
Received 14 Aug 20232 Rushgrove Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XE
Received 14 Aug 2023Little Orchard , Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BB
Received 14 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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