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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68,384 approved · 9,621 refused · 6,237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 4, 16 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 21 Dec 2023Flat 4, 16 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 21 Dec 2023Picnic Area, Prior Park Landscape Gardens, Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 2023Picnic Area, Prior Park Landscape Gardens, Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 2023The Cottage , Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EW
Received 21 Dec 2023The Cottage , Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EW
Received 21 Dec 2023Thrubwell Farmhouse, Thrubwell Farm, Thrubwell Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 5AW
Received 8 Dec 2023Church View Cottage , Bath Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BU
Received 21 Dec 2023Foxfield , Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UW
Received 21 Dec 2023Lower Farmhouse, Lower Farm Lane, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AQ
Received 21 Dec 2023Land Between 131 And 153, High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 2023Clandown Stores, 1 Fosse Way, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BL
Received 20 Dec 202385 Southdown Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1HL
Received 21 Dec 2023Gas Governor Building, Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 202310 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 21 Dec 202347 North Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QB
Received 21 Dec 2023Glebe House Farm , Main Road, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NW
Received 21 Dec 2023Lodge Style, Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 21 Dec 202394 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 21 Dec 2023Central United Reformed Church, Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 21 Dec 2023Central United Reformed Church, Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 21 Dec 2023Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 2023Site Of Old Colliery, Fry's Bottom, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 2023Glebe House , Church Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BX
Received 22 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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