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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67,985 approved · 9,555 refused · 6,208 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hartwells Of Bath, Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PP
Received 19 Oct 202321 The Linleys, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XE
Received 19 Oct 2023Hartwells Of Bath , Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PP
Received 19 Oct 2023Hartwells Of Bath , Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PP
Received 19 Oct 2023Moores Cottage, 22 Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 9 Oct 202315 First Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NW
Received 19 Oct 2023Evergreen Cottage , North Wick Road, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NN
Received 19 Oct 202337 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QE
Received 19 Oct 2023Smallcombe Chapel, Bathwick Cemetery, Bathwick Cemetry Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DD
Received 19 Oct 2023Larchcombe , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UZ
Received 20 Oct 2023Grove House West , Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 20 Oct 2023Grove House , Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 20 Oct 2023All Saints House , All Saints Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HE
Received 20 Oct 2023Flat 5, 41 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 20 Oct 2023Flat 5, 41 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 20 Oct 2023Block 16 North Wing , Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 20 Oct 202346 Wells Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RY
Received 20 Oct 202358 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 20 Oct 20234 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 20 Oct 202389 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DT
Received 20 Oct 2023Grove House West, Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 20 Oct 2023Land And Buildings West Of St Julians Farm, St Julian's Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Oct 2023Plots 25 And 26, The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Oct 2023Western Riverside Development Area, Midland Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 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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