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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65,062 approved · 9,103 refused · 6,003 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QA
Received 5 Oct 202344A Longfellow Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3YZ
Received 2 Oct 2023Temple Court , The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EX
Received 5 Oct 2023Court Farm, Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 3 Oct 2023Court Farm, Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 3 Oct 2023180 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EN
Received 4 Oct 2023Under The Hill , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XB
Received 5 Oct 2023Catholic Church Of The Good Shepherd, Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EN
Received 5 Oct 2023Rally Field, Lower Stoke, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Sept 2023Sainsbury's Supermarkets Limited, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 5 Oct 2023Monkton Combe Prep School , Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7ET
Received 5 Oct 2023Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Oct 2023236 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7QZ
Received 5 Oct 202346 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 6 Oct 20234 The Orchard, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DS
Received 6 Oct 202330 King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PD
Received 6 Oct 20236 Victoria Terrace, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QZ
Received 6 Oct 202327 Vernham Grove, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TA
Received 6 Oct 202340 Lyndhurst Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JH
Received 6 Oct 2023Ground Floor Flat, 8 Queen's Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NJ
Received 6 Oct 202333 Westfield Close, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EB
Received 6 Oct 20238 Tamar Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1PP
Received 6 Oct 2023Cameley Old School House , Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BZ
Received 6 Oct 20234 Dunsford Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 6 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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