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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68,288 approved · 9,605 refused · 6,229 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Stanley Hill Cottages , Ashes Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7US
Received 13 Dec 20239 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 13 Dec 2023Parcel 0082, Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Dec 2023108 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EJ
Received 7 Dec 2023Littlewell Farm, Upper Radford, Paulton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PU
Received 7 Dec 2023Coventry Building Society, 2A Wood Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JQ
Received 13 Dec 2023Rugmore Farm, Rugmoor Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YR
Received 8 Dec 2023Rose Cottage, Newtown, Moorledge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TQ
Received 13 Dec 202334 Cleeve Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SD
Received 13 Dec 2023Land To Rear Of 99 & 101 Fairfield Park Road, Solsbury Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Dec 2023Land North Of Blacklands, Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Dec 2023Baroda , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 13 Dec 202360 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DB
Received 13 Dec 202319 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RS
Received 13 Dec 202319 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RS
Received 13 Dec 202323 Vandyck Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UH
Received 13 Dec 202316 Horsecombe Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QY
Received 13 Dec 2023Upper Maisonette, 8 Station Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DX
Received 13 Dec 2023School House , School Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UY
Received 13 Dec 2023Flat B1, 23 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 12 Dec 202341 Hantone Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XD
Received 13 Dec 202338 Chilcompton Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NP
Received 14 Dec 202318 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JY
Received 14 Dec 2023The Bungalow , Broomhill Lane, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SD
Received 14 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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