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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
68,384 approved · 9,621 refused · 6,237 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LN
Received 24 Oct 2023The Teasel Barn , Stanton Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JJ
Received 24 Oct 2023Chivers House, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 25 Oct 20231 Cleveland Villas , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 25 Oct 20239 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Oct 202314 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 25 Oct 202314 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 25 Oct 2023Crowe Hall , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 25 Oct 2023Crowe Hall , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 25 Oct 2023Land At Rear Of 1 To 7, Bloomfield Crescent, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Oct 2023Camden Court, St Stephen's Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PQ
Received 26 Oct 2023Robin's Nest , Hollowbrook Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8FD
Received 26 Oct 20232 High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SY
Received 26 Oct 2023Nisi, 125 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HN
Received 26 Oct 2023Nisi, 125 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HN
Received 26 Oct 2023Flat 1, St Mary's Church House, 8 Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 26 Oct 2023Parcel 2000, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Oct 202315 Lulworth Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2PX
Received 26 Oct 2023Barnlea, Withy Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PT
Received 26 Oct 202321 St Christopher's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RG
Received 26 Oct 2023The Old Garden , All Saints Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HE
Received 27 Oct 2023Basement, 9 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 27 Oct 202327 Poolemead Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QW
Received 27 Oct 202312A St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 27 Oct 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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