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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68,288 approved · 9,605 refused · 6,229 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Moger & Sparrow, 24 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HY
Received 5 Dec 2023Bwthyn , 1 Church Street, Woolley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AS
Received 5 Dec 202355 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LJ
Received 5 Dec 2023Pitfour House, High Street, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HT
Received 5 Dec 2023Avon Army Cadet Force , Bath Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NY
Received 5 Dec 2023Joules , 12 Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AS
Received 6 Dec 20238 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 5 Dec 20238 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 5 Dec 2023Moger & Sparrow, 24 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HY
Received 6 Dec 2023Flat 1 Ground Floor, 10 Catharine Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PR
Received 6 Dec 2023Parcel 6450, Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Dec 2023Laura Lodge , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 6 Dec 202310 The Firs, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ED
Received 6 Dec 2023Ivythorpe , Church Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TX
Received 7 Dec 2023Merry Hill Farm , Gypsy Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 5TS
Received 7 Dec 2023Parcel 0038, Green Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Dec 2023Middle Twinhoe Cottage , Middle Twinhoe, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QX
Received 7 Dec 2023The Boater , 9 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 7 Dec 202313 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 7 Dec 202310 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 7 Dec 20239 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PH
Received 7 Dec 202312 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 7 Dec 2023Pulteney Court, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Dec 202318 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 7 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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