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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68,384 approved · 9,621 refused · 6,237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Glebe House , Church Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BX
Received 22 Dec 2023Parcel 6034, North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Dec 202333 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LY
Received 22 Dec 2023Theobald House , 46 Dartmouth Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AT
Received 22 Dec 2023St Thomas A Becket's Church, Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Dec 2023Central Gardens, Catharine Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Dec 2023Abbey Cottage , Park Corner, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UQ
Received 22 Dec 202310 Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EA
Received 22 Dec 202310 Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EA
Received 22 Dec 2023Novar , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 22 Dec 2023Hampton Row Allotments, Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Dec 202351 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AQ
Received 22 Dec 2023Smallcombe Nurseries , Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DD
Received 22 Dec 202311 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 22 Dec 2023Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 22 Dec 2023Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 22 Dec 20235 Tyning Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HL
Received 27 Dec 20238 Worcester Place, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QP
Received 27 Dec 2023Flat 1 Ground Floor, 10 Catharine Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PR
Received 27 Dec 2023Cherry Tree Cottage , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 27 Dec 2023Rose Lea , Broomhill Lane, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SA
Received 27 Dec 2023Little Court, Bannerdown Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NE
Received 21 Dec 202347 St Mary's Close, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HX
Received 27 Dec 2023Leigh Cottage , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 27 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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