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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
67,985 approved · 9,555 refused · 6,208 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Feb 1998 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Buildings At End Of Walnut Drive, Walnut Drive, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Oct 202310 Claremont Place , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 23 Oct 202363 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NH
Received 23 Oct 202328 Milton Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QZ
Received 23 Oct 2023Burford , Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UW
Received 23 Oct 2023Ponte Vecchio Bath Ltd , Spring Gardens Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PW
Received 23 Oct 2023Yellow Car Park, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Oct 2023Public Open Space, Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Oct 2023Royal United Hospital Central Wing , Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 23 Oct 2023Parkside, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Oct 2023Flat 1, 19 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 23 Oct 2023Caravan The Orchard Rear Of, Beechwood Farm, 2 Kelston Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AF
Received 23 Oct 20238 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PH
Received 23 Oct 202316 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 23 Oct 20236 Belgrave Place , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JL
Received 23 Oct 202378 Old Fosse Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2SR
Received 23 Oct 20239 Combe Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NU
Received 23 Oct 2023Development Site Next To Somerdale Pavilion, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Oct 2023Renovations, 286 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 23 Oct 2023Flat 1, Vale Lodge, Weston Park West, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AR
Received 14 Aug 202320 Woodland Grove, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AT
Received 14 Aug 2023Flat 5, 35 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QB
Received 14 Aug 2023Dayr-house, Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 14 Aug 2023The Bird, 18 - 19 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EZ
Received 14 Aug 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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