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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
68,195 approved · 9,581 refused · 6,222 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 First Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NW
Received 11 Sept 2023Treetops Nursing Home, St Clement's Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AF
Received 11 Sept 2023Holy Trinity Church , Monmouth Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AY
Received 11 Sept 2023Garden Maisonette, 10 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 11 Sept 2023Lodge Style, Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 11 Sept 2023Thoughtful Bakery, 40 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BX
Received 11 Sept 202312A Belgrave Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JU
Received 11 Sept 202384 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PB
Received 11 Sept 202345 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BR
Received 12 Sept 20235 Belmont, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DZ
Received 12 Sept 20239 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 12 Sept 2023Parcel 5929, Hanham Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Nov 2023Stratton House, 16 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 22 Nov 2023The Old Rectory , Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ST
Received 23 Nov 2023The Old Rectory , Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ST
Received 23 Nov 202311 London Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BU
Received 23 Nov 2023Chaucer House , 1 The Cedars, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TR
Received 23 Nov 2023St Anthonys , The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AL
Received 23 Nov 2023Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Nov 2023Parcel 3589, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Nov 2023Brook Cottage , St Catherine Lane, St Catherine, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8HA
Received 23 Nov 2023Tralee , Boxbury Hill, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SN
Received 23 Nov 2023Ground Floor, 15 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RY
Received 24 Nov 2023Woodlands , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HB
Received 24 Nov 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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