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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68,087 approved · 9,572 refused · 6,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ground Floor, 14 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 31 Aug 2023Ground Floor, 14 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 31 Aug 2023Site Of Old Colliery, Fry's Bottom, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Aug 20234 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 31 Aug 2023165 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QZ
Received 31 Aug 2023The Old Rectory , Upper Road, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AN
Received 31 Aug 2023Flat 3, Circus Mansions, 36 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LJ
Received 31 Aug 2023Flat 3, Circus Mansions, 36 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LJ
Received 31 Aug 202383 Sheridan Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RA
Received 1 Sept 2023The Old Byre , Anchor Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 1 Sept 2023Towerhurst, 1 Orchard Close, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RF
Received 1 Sept 20234 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 1 Sept 20234 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 1 Sept 202328 Prospect Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JD
Received 1 Sept 202328 Prospect Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JD
Received 1 Sept 202318 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LW
Received 1 Sept 2023Paulton Methodist Church , Park Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7QQ
Received 1 Sept 2023Paulton Methodist Church , Park Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7QQ
Received 1 Sept 2023Parcel 4134, Lower Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Sept 20231 Burlington Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SA
Received 1 Sept 2023120C Charlton Park, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BP
Received 1 Sept 2023Lower Tunley Farm , Stoneage Lane, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DS
Received 4 Sept 20233 Bath Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BT
Received 4 Sept 20237 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AB
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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