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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
68,087 approved · 9,572 refused · 6,215 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 1997 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Mount, 27 Marksbury Bottom, Marksbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HR
Received 21 Aug 2023The Mount , 27 Marksbury Bottom, Marksbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HR
Received 21 Aug 202379 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XN
Received 21 Aug 20234 Lynfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4ER
Received 18 Aug 202316 Wellington Buildings, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EP
Received 21 Aug 202345 Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1HW
Received 21 Aug 202350 Grange Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AG
Received 21 Aug 2023Mendip View , Eastcourt Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BT
Received 21 Aug 2023Haydon Que Club , Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QR
Received 21 Aug 20231 Titan Drive , Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SW
Received 21 Aug 2023The Royal High School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SZ
Received 21 Aug 202383 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LP
Received 21 Aug 202317 - 18 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DB
Received 21 Aug 202317 - 18 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DB
Received 21 Aug 2023Unit 2, Westpoint, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UN
Received 21 Aug 2023Unit 2, Westpoint, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UN
Received 21 Aug 20239 Wiltshire Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NW
Received 22 Aug 202341 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BX
Received 22 Aug 20237 Pine Court, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SQ
Received 22 Aug 202361 Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2PW
Received 22 Aug 2023Kingswood School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 22 Aug 202371 Chantry Mead Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DE
Received 22 Aug 2023Abbey Hotel , 1 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 22 Aug 202325 St Michael's Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PZ
Received 22 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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