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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68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Heathfield , Mount Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PW
Received 8 Nov 2023Park Cottage, St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PR
Received 9 Nov 2023The Old Crown , 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 9 Nov 2023The Old Crown , 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 9 Nov 2023Slug And Lettuce, 5 - 6 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 8 Nov 2023Springfield House Care Home , 21 Entry Hill Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ND
Received 9 Nov 20231 Larkhall Place, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SF
Received 27 Oct 2023Jat Environmental Reclamation Ltd, Pensford Hill, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JF
Received 9 Nov 2023Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Nov 2023Sewage Works, Ford Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Nov 2023Radford Hill Cottage , Radford Hill, Radford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XU
Received 9 Nov 2023Elm Cottage , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JE
Received 9 Nov 2023The Flat, Greenacres, Bonhill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TS
Received 9 Nov 202354 Lyndhurst Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JH
Received 9 Nov 2023Land South Of Perfect View, Footpaths Along Rivers Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Nov 202323 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HX
Received 9 Nov 20236 St Mary's Buildings, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AT
Received 9 Nov 202344 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PB
Received 10 Nov 2023The Old Place , Newmans Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JA
Received 10 Nov 2023The Old Parsonage , Church Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TX
Received 10 Nov 2023Flat 2, 20 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RZ
Received 10 Nov 202322 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 10 Nov 2023Clan House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Nov 2023The Beacon , Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 10 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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