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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68,288 approved · 9,605 refused · 6,229 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Southlands Drive, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HB
Received 14 Dec 2023Combe Tor , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 14 Dec 2023Sydney House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Dec 2023Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 14 Dec 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 14 Dec 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 14 Dec 202329 Eastfield Avenue, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4HH
Received 14 Dec 2023Belgrave House , Pleasant Place, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TL
Received 14 Dec 2023High Hall , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JQ
Received 14 Dec 2023Parcel 0172, Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Dec 2023Hallatrow Business Park , Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EX
Received 14 Dec 2023Augusta , Norton Lane, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EY
Received 14 Dec 202319 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 14 Dec 202319 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 14 Dec 20231 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LZ
Received 15 Dec 20231 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 15 Dec 2023Joules , 12 Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AS
Received 15 Dec 2023Newdigate , Beckford Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NQ
Received 15 Dec 20234A Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 15 Dec 202314 Walden Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QW
Received 15 Dec 2023Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 15 Dec 2023The Bear Pad, 7 Hayes Place, Holloway, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QW
Received 15 Dec 2023Bellevue Farm , West Town Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 7XD
Received 15 Dec 202338 The Daglands, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PR
Received 15 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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