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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68,288 approved · 9,605 refused · 6,229 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parcel 6600, Fairy Hill, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 2023Parcel 4108, Kingsfield, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 2023Flat 2, 25 Green Park, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HZ
Received 4 Dec 2023Flat 2, 25 Green Park, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HZ
Received 4 Dec 2023Parcel 2727, Kingshill Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 2023Bell Farm , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 5 Dec 2023Bell Farm , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 5 Dec 2023Greenmeadow , Woollard Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QS
Received 5 Dec 202316 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 5 Dec 202316 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 5 Dec 20233 Beaufort Villas, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LY
Received 5 Dec 2023Land Adjacent To 2, The Old Coach House, Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Dec 2023Culverhayes Care Centre , Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AY
Received 5 Dec 2023The Boater , 9 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 5 Dec 2023University Of Bath , University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AY
Received 5 Dec 20236 Roundhill Park, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NL
Received 5 Dec 2023The Orangery Nursing Home , 157 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EL
Received 5 Dec 20234 Summerhill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UR
Received 5 Dec 2023Electricity Substation, Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Dec 2023Central Garage , 93 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PS
Received 5 Dec 2023Shunem Villa , Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 5 Dec 2023Shunem Villa , Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 5 Dec 2023Cecil House , 26 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EX
Received 5 Dec 2023Greencroft , 121 Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3LW
Received 5 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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