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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68,087 approved · 9,572 refused · 6,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Aug 2023Sewage Works, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Aug 202311 Englishcombe Way, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EU
Received 22 Aug 2023Tall Timbers , Pow's Hill, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XN
Received 22 Aug 2023The Beeches , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 22 Aug 2023Canteen Cottage , Canteen Lane, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PY
Received 22 Aug 2023Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 23 Aug 20232 Worcester Place, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QP
Received 23 Aug 20235 Miles's Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QS
Received 23 Aug 202384 Redland Park, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SH
Received 23 Aug 20236 Summerleaze, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BZ
Received 23 Aug 202314 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NY
Received 17 Aug 2023Goodfield House, 192 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TF
Received 23 Aug 202320 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BP
Received 23 Aug 2023Land To Rear Of 43 Upper Oldfield Park, Junction Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Aug 202376 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HE
Received 23 Aug 202376 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HE
Received 23 Aug 2023The Lodge, Copse End, Coombe Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BG
Received 23 Aug 2023Brook Lodge , 199 London Road East, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NB
Received 23 Aug 2023Co-operative Retail Services Ltd, The Scala, Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 23 Aug 2023Tylehurst , 7 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UH
Received 23 Aug 20231 Belgrave Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JU
Received 23 Aug 202315 Frys Leaze , Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NU
Received 23 Aug 2023Parcel 0046, Carlingcott, Carlingcott, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 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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