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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68,087 approved · 9,572 refused · 6,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
74A Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RU
Received 4 Sept 202336 Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PR
Received 4 Sept 202311 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EE
Received 4 Sept 2023222 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 4 Sept 20238 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LR
Received 4 Sept 2023Meadow View , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UX
Received 4 Sept 2023Garden Flat, 26 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 4 Sept 20231 Cranhill Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YF
Received 4 Sept 2023Belle Vue Farm Buildings, Hunstrete Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Aug 2023Mitchells & Butlers Retail Ltd, Old Police Station, Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 4 Sept 202331 Circus Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Sept 202317 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RW
Received 4 Sept 2023Primrose Hill Farm , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 4 Sept 2023Conewood Bungalow , Jubilee Terrace, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NU
Received 4 Sept 2023Timpson, 5 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1QE
Received 4 Sept 202333 Peacock Way, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2FU
Received 4 Sept 2023Holburne Museum Of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DB
Received 4 Sept 202318 Lime Grove Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HE
Received 4 Sept 202374 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AP
Received 4 Sept 20234 Claverton Drive, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AJ
Received 4 Sept 2023Brookside , The Street, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AL
Received 4 Sept 202333 Wedgwood Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NT
Received 4 Sept 2023My Barn , Main Road, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NN
Received 4 Sept 202320 Powlett Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QH
Received 4 Sept 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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