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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
64,400 approved · 9,010 refused · 5,945 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PX
Received 14 Sept 2023Flat 1, 19 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 14 Sept 2023Basement Flat, 8 Laura Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BJ
Received 13 Sept 2023Little Wyld, Court Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RY
Received 12 Sept 2023Basement Flat, 8 Laura Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BJ
Received 13 Sept 202324 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DR
Received 14 Sept 2023Oakwood Barn , Penn Hill Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SJ
Received 15 Sept 2023Orchard House, High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 15 Sept 20231 Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AY
Received 14 Sept 2023St Barnabas Church , Temple Inn Lane, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5DB
Received 15 Sept 2023Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 15 Sept 202326 Seven Acre Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HF
Received 15 Sept 202316 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 15 Sept 2023Green Park Station , Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JB
Received 15 Sept 2023Nuholme , Wick Lane, Stanton Wick, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BX
Received 18 Sept 20231 Camden Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HZ
Received 18 Sept 202363 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DT
Received 18 Sept 2023Greenbanks , Ostlings Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RW
Received 18 Sept 202318 Williamstowe, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EJ
Received 18 Sept 2023Perryhouse Farm , Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XG
Received 18 Sept 202345 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BR
Received 18 Sept 20233 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 18 Sept 2023Alpine House , 79 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LL
Received 18 Sept 2023135 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AN
Received 18 Sept 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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