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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
65,062 approved · 9,103 refused · 6,003 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
La Sainte Union Convent , 29 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EZ
Received 3 Oct 20232 Park View, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3AW
Received 3 Oct 2023Meadow Farm , Ruett Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UP
Received 3 Oct 2023Ashes Hill Farm , Kilkenny Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DY
Received 3 Oct 2023Unregistered Dwelling, Ashes Hill Farm, Kilkenny Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Oct 20239 Upper Mount Pleasant, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UG
Received 3 Oct 202317 Day Crescent, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RY
Received 3 Oct 2023Powderham , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JL
Received 3 Oct 202353 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 4 Oct 202355 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 4 Oct 20239 High Street, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HT
Received 4 Oct 202315 Brunswick Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PQ
Received 4 Oct 2023Flat 1, 1 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RU
Received 4 Oct 20232 Belmont, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DT
Received 4 Oct 2023The Scala , Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 4 Oct 2023Cromwell Farm , Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8RF
Received 4 Oct 202322 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 4 Oct 20235 Somer Ridge, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2FB
Received 27 Sept 202319 Broadlands Avenue, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2DU
Received 28 Sept 2023The Beeches, 9 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 29 Sept 2023York House, Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SW
Received 29 Sept 2023York House, Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SW
Received 29 Sept 2023The Bertinet Bakery , 1 New Bond Street Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BH
Received 5 Oct 2023109 Hurn Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SG
Received 5 Oct 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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