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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
63,902 approved · 8,933 refused · 5,914 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 1998 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 14 Jun 2023Agricultural Buildings And Land, Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jun 2023Friars Gate , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 15 Jun 2023Manor House, Watery Lane, Burnett, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TF
Received 15 Jun 202326 Charles Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HU
Received 15 Jun 202326 Charles Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HU
Received 15 Jun 2023North Chew Farm , Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RW
Received 15 Jun 202310A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 15 Jun 202320 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 15 Jun 20239 Sion Hill Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SJ
Received 15 Jun 202358 Lorne Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BZ
Received 15 Jun 2023181 Southdown Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1HR
Received 12 Jun 202349 Fairfield Park Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JP
Received 15 Jun 202311 Oxford Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QW
Received 12 Jun 2023Land To North East Of Lambridge Training Ground, London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Jun 2023The Tumps, Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Jun 202313 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AT
Received 15 Jun 2023Flat 1, 13 Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LY
Received 16 Jun 2023Stratton House, 16 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 16 Jun 2023Holburne Museum Of Art , Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DB
Received 16 Jun 2023The Whins , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TJ
Received 16 Jun 2023New Farm , Marksbury Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HJ
Received 16 Jun 202316 Charlotte Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ND
Received 16 Jun 202334 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AN
Received 16 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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