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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
68,288 approved · 9,605 refused · 6,229 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
494 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HG
Received 1 Dec 202361 Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2PW
Received 1 Dec 202343 Hiscocks Drive, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3TW
Received 1 Dec 202317 Vandyck Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UH
Received 4 Dec 202322 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LR
Received 4 Dec 2023Midsomer Norton Power Generation Plant, Midsomer Enterprise Park, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BB
Received 4 Dec 2023Wellsway House, 9 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1HS
Received 4 Dec 2023Primrose Hill Farm , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 4 Dec 20235 The Batch, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DR
Received 4 Dec 202335 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NR
Received 4 Dec 2023Orchard House , 137 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 4 Dec 2023Spindlewood , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RY
Received 4 Dec 2023Beaumont House , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RD
Received 4 Dec 202310 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 4 Dec 2023The Hollies, Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 4 Dec 2023Old Vicarage , Church Street, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LG
Received 4 Dec 2023Telecommunication Mast Avn0170, Wellsway Park, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 2023Greenacre Farm , Litton Lane, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AY
Received 4 Dec 202311 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 202311 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 202323 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 4 Dec 20232B Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 4 Dec 20232B Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 4 Dec 2023Garages And Parking Area, Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 4 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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