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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
68,384 approved · 9,621 refused · 6,237 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TD
Received 15 Dec 202317 Kennington Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EA
Received 18 Dec 2023Flat 2 First Floor, Marlborough Lodge, 1 Penn Hill Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4ED
Received 18 Dec 202317 Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UB
Received 18 Dec 20231 Cleveland Villas , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 18 Dec 20237 Vernon Park, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DD
Received 18 Dec 202320 Meare Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PP
Received 18 Dec 202334 Oriel Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1JE
Received 18 Dec 202318 St Winifred's Drive, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HR
Received 18 Dec 202340 Gladstone Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HL
Received 18 Dec 20231 Beaufort West, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QB
Received 18 Dec 2023Lansdown Grove Hotel , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EH
Received 18 Dec 2023Baroda , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 18 Dec 2023Countess Of Huntingdon Chapel , Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 18 Dec 2023Rustic House , North Way, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DY
Received 19 Dec 2023Prospect Style Farm, Widcombe Hill, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AS
Received 19 Dec 2023The Artisans Deli, 15 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 19 Dec 202329 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NT
Received 19 Dec 202329 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NT
Received 19 Dec 2023Storage Yard Adjacent To Argyle Works , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DB
Received 19 Dec 202338 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RF
Received 19 Dec 2023West Harptree House, Bristol Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HG
Received 19 Dec 2023Yew Tree Barn , North Wick, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NP
Received 19 Dec 2023Parcel 2280, Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Dec 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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