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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68,087 approved · 9,572 refused · 6,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Lansdown Place East, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ET
Received 25 Aug 2023Breach Hill Farm Wilson , Breach Hill Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YG
Received 25 Aug 2023Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 25 Aug 2023Street Record, Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Aug 20237 St George's Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AA
Received 25 Aug 202341 Garrick Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QX
Received 25 Aug 202390 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DE
Received 25 Aug 2023Flat 3, St Swithins Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 25 Aug 2023Midford Manor Care Home, Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RE
Received 28 Aug 202311 Trim Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HB
Received 28 Aug 20236 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 28 Aug 202359 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 28 Aug 20239 Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QD
Received 28 Aug 20239 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2ED
Received 28 Aug 202319 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 28 Aug 202315 The Crescent, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DG
Received 29 Aug 2023116 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HS
Received 28 Aug 20232 Gibbs Mews , Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 29 Aug 202332 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LY
Received 28 Aug 20234 Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 28 Aug 2023The Sonnery, 79A St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PZ
Received 29 Aug 20239 Englishcombe Rise, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RL
Received 29 Aug 202322 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ED
Received 29 Aug 2023The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 25 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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