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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68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dunkirk Mill , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 7 Nov 202329 Brummel Way, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7XG
Received 7 Nov 2023Former Coop, 111 - 115 High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DB
Received 7 Nov 2023Whitegate Nurseries , Stockwood Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AN
Received 7 Nov 202336 Southstoke Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SN
Received 7 Nov 20239 Bailbrook Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AP
Received 7 Nov 202316 Victoria Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AW
Received 7 Nov 2023The Tumps, Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Nov 2023Mead Cottage , Church Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EF
Received 7 Nov 20238 Trent Grove, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QD
Received 7 Nov 2023Homewood Park Hotel , Homewood, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TB
Received 7 Nov 2023Land To Rear Of Danes Court, Dane's Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Nov 2023Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases , Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 7 Nov 2023Rainbows End , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ED
Received 8 Nov 2023Sewage Purification Works , Mead Lane, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ER
Received 8 Nov 202333 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LB
Received 8 Nov 2023Long House Farm, Thrubwell Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 5AW
Received 7 Nov 202387 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LW
Received 8 Nov 20231 Valley View , Upper Court, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3GE
Received 8 Nov 20233 Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 8 Nov 2023Knoll Farm, White Ox Mead Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PL
Received 8 Nov 2023Flat 1, Northanger Court, Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PE
Received 8 Nov 2023Bannerdown Gardens , Bannerdown Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8EG
Received 8 Nov 2023Heathfield , Mount Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PW
Received 8 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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