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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68,384 approved · 9,621 refused · 6,237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garden Flat, Glen Lynn, St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RN
Received 27 Oct 202315 Lulworth Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2PX
Received 27 Oct 202329 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Oct 2023Studio Flat E, 1 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 27 Oct 2023Second Floor, 14 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 27 Oct 2023Menage And Stables, Chew Court, Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Oct 20231 Larkhall Place, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SF
Received 27 Oct 202315 Lower Road, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AX
Received 27 Oct 20237 Kennet Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NZ
Received 27 Oct 2023Roman Lodge Farm , Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BJ
Received 30 Oct 2023Lomond House , 35 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 30 Oct 2023Lomond House , 35 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 30 Oct 2023Agricultural Buildings North Of The Grange, Charlcombe Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Oct 20232 Vale View, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QD
Received 30 Oct 2023Ashton , 26 Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SG
Received 30 Oct 20231 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 30 Oct 2023Camelot , 4 Station Approach, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AE
Received 30 Oct 202333 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NT
Received 30 Oct 202333 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NT
Received 30 Oct 2023The Maltings , River Place, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 30 Oct 2023Manor Farm, Millards Hill, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BW
Received 30 Oct 2023The Old Brewery , Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DE
Received 30 Oct 20231 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BZ
Received 30 Oct 2023Second Floor Flat, 10 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 30 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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