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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
64,157 approved · 8,972 refused · 5,931 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hsbc, 41 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1TN
Received 26 Jun 20231 Cotswold Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DJ
Received 26 Jun 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 26 Jun 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 26 Jun 2023Bristol Barbarians Rfc , Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BT
Received 26 Jun 2023114 Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AX
Received 26 Jun 202360 Upper East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LR
Received 26 Jun 20237 Arcadius Way, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2GE
Received 26 Jun 202329 Bath New Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3ED
Received 26 Jun 202326 Church Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PP
Received 26 Jun 2023Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd, Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RR
Received 26 Jun 2023Writhlington School , Knobsbury Lane, Writhlington, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3NQ
Received 26 Jun 202363 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 27 Jun 2023204 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 27 Jun 2023204 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 27 Jun 2023The Garden House, 24 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JU
Received 26 Jun 20235 Miles's Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QS
Received 27 Jun 2023Little Stoke , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DZ
Received 27 Jun 20237 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 27 Jun 202317 Broadmoor Vale, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LP
Received 27 Jun 2023Gainsborough Lodge, Rockery Park, North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DN
Received 27 Jun 20236 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BA
Received 27 Jun 202358 Caledonian Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RD
Received 27 Jun 202328 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JJ
Received 27 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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