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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68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Woodlands, Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QL
Received 1 Nov 202323 Arundel Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EF
Received 1 Nov 20233 Greenhill Place, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TF
Received 1 Nov 20232 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 2 Nov 20235 Old Pit Terrace, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BE
Received 2 Nov 202320 Foresters Close, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1GF
Received 2 Nov 2023Hedgerows , Parkway Lane, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0NJ
Received 2 Nov 2023Parcel 2000, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Nov 2023High View , 154 Midford Road, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SE
Received 2 Nov 202310 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 2 Nov 20235 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 2 Nov 2023St Michael's Cottage , Townsend, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BH
Received 2 Nov 202337 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AN
Received 2 Nov 2023Former Midland Railway Osborne Road To Station Road, Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Nov 20232 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 2 Nov 2023Parcel 3511, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Nov 2023Timsbury Clocks, Dray Cottage, South Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0LD
Received 3 Nov 20231 North Hill Cottages , Tunley Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BB
Received 3 Nov 2023Frome House , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EY
Received 3 Nov 202334 Trinity Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AB
Received 3 Nov 2023Corkage Chapel Row, 5 Chapel Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HN
Received 3 Nov 2023Corkage Chapel Row, 5 Chapel Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HN
Received 3 Nov 20231 The Old House , The Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WG
Received 3 Nov 20231 The Old House , The Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WG
Received 3 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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