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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67,985 approved · 9,555 refused · 6,208 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
223 Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FY
Received 17 Aug 202341 Snow Hill, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DN
Received 17 Aug 2023West Lodge , 6 Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SL
Received 17 Aug 202338 Gainsborough Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AJ
Received 17 Aug 202320 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BP
Received 17 Aug 20234 The Crescent, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DG
Received 18 Aug 2023Street Record, Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 Aug 2023Hanover Court , Salisbury Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QX
Received 18 Aug 202314 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 18 Aug 2023Old Welton Hill Farm, Binces Lodge Lane, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XQ
Received 18 Aug 202310 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 18 Aug 2023Cherry Cottage , High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SX
Received 18 Aug 2023Evergreen Cottage , North Wick Road, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NN
Received 18 Aug 202322 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ED
Received 16 Aug 20232 The Batch, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QL
Received 17 Aug 2023Regency Laundry Service , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BX
Received 18 Aug 202370 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NE
Received 18 Aug 202325 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JX
Received 18 Aug 2023Cheddar House, Tunley Farm, Tunley Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DL
Received 21 Aug 2023Cheddar House, Tunley Farm, Tunley Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DL
Received 21 Aug 2023Hope House, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Aug 2023The Grange , Paulton Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EG
Received 21 Aug 202379 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EH
Received 21 Aug 2023Garden Flat, 18 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 21 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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