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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
68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Lansdown Terrace , Lansdown Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EF
Received 30 Oct 20231 Malvern Buildings, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JX
Received 30 Oct 2023133 High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Oct 2023Norton Radstock College, Wells Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RW
Received 30 Oct 2023The Old Granary , Backy Hill, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 30 Oct 202312 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HJ
Received 30 Oct 20234 Summerhill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UR
Received 30 Oct 202322 Southover Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HR
Received 31 Oct 2023Bloomfield House , 146 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AS
Received 31 Oct 2023Esher Lodge , Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QY
Received 31 Oct 20237 Scumbrum Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JN
Received 31 Oct 202311 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2LE
Received 31 Oct 202311 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2LE
Received 31 Oct 2023Combe Down Ce Vc Primary School , Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JQ
Received 31 Oct 2023Proposed Employment Unit 2, Bell Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Oct 2023The Wharf, Greensbrook, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PG
Received 31 Oct 2023Land Betwwen Three Gables And Paysons Croft, Church Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Oct 2023Ashleigh , Wick Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XD
Received 31 Oct 2023Cinderlands , Cameley Road, Cameley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AF
Received 1 Nov 2023Holy Trinity Church , Monmouth Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AY
Received 1 Nov 2023Beckford Court, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Nov 2023Parcel 0096, Ramscombe Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Nov 2023Howzat, 102 Withies Park, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2PB
Received 1 Nov 2023157 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JN
Received 1 Nov 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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