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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
63,670 approved · 8,888 refused · 5,893 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 8 Jun 2023New Hall House, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RT
Received 8 Jun 20238 Somerset Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SW
Received 8 Jun 2023Prospect House , Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UL
Received 8 Jun 2023Weavers Farm , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 9 Jun 2023Weavers Farm , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 9 Jun 202331 May Tree Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TU
Received 9 Jun 20231 Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BT
Received 9 Jun 2023Foxhill Community Centre , Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QA
Received 9 Jun 202358 Wellow Mead, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SB
Received 9 Jun 2023Green Park Brasserie, 6 Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JB
Received 9 Jun 2023176 Haycombe Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PP
Received 9 Jun 2023Sewage Purification Works, Mead Lane, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ER
Received 9 Jun 2023Rosalie , Westwood Avenue, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6XY
Received 9 Jun 2023237 London Road East, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RL
Received 9 Jun 2023237 London Road East, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RL
Received 9 Jun 2023Loft Cottage , Mill Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6NA
Received 9 Jun 2023Grove Farm, Chapel Hill, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YP
Received 12 Jun 2023The Old Manse , Winterfield Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RF
Received 12 Jun 20236 Broadway, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BX
Received 12 Jun 2023218 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 12 Jun 202335 Kensington Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LH
Received 12 Jun 202316 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 12 Jun 2023Allenby House North, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RE
Received 12 Jun 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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