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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
64,670 approved · 9,045 refused · 5,967 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 20 Sept 2023Garden Flat, 29 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LY
Received 20 Sept 2023Prospect House , Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BE
Received 20 Sept 20233 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HG
Received 20 Sept 2023Riparian House, 83 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Sept 20239 Laggan Gardens, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RX
Received 21 Sept 20235 Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 21 Sept 202357 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AW
Received 21 Sept 202315 Stuart Place, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RQ
Received 21 Sept 202334 Crandale Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HX
Received 21 Sept 20236 Eagle Park, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HS
Received 21 Sept 2023Land At Fosse Farm Combe Hay Ba2 8rf, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Sept 2023Valley Smoke House, Elton Farm, Wells Road, Dundry, Bristol, North Somerset, BS41 8NQ
Received 21 Sept 2023Regency Laundry Service , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BX
Received 21 Sept 2023Braysdown Lodge , Woodborough Hill, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LN
Received 22 Sept 2023Second Floor, 12 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 22 Sept 2023Second Floor, 12 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 22 Sept 2023Greenways , Stoneage Lane, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DS
Received 22 Sept 2023Paulton House , Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SX
Received 22 Sept 2023Flat 1, 31 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LR
Received 22 Sept 2023Woodhill , Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SW
Received 22 Sept 2023Bath Recreation Ground, Pulteney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DS
Received 22 Sept 2023Bath Recreation Ground, Pulteney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DS
Received 22 Sept 2023Ashcroft , Blacksmith Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BT
Received 22 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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