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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68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LZ
Received 14 Nov 2023Flower And Hayes Ltd, North Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Nov 2023Spring Close , Tadwick Lane, Tadwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AH
Received 15 Nov 2023Parade Park Hotel, 8 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Nov 2023Parade Park Hotel, 8 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Nov 2023The Old Rectory , Charlcombe Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DR
Received 15 Nov 202335 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BR
Received 15 Nov 2023Cedarwood House , 2 Hermitage Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SN
Received 16 Nov 2023235 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HJ
Received 16 Nov 2023Stockwood Vale Golf Club , Stockwood Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2ER
Received 16 Nov 2023Royal Victoria Park Nursery , Drive Through Royal Victoria Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LZ
Received 16 Nov 202318 Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AX
Received 16 Nov 2023Cedar Park Care Centre, 27 - 28 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NG
Received 16 Nov 2023Former Debenhams , 17 Southgate Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AP
Received 16 Nov 2023Ministry Of Defence Storage And Distribution Centre, Pixash Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TP
Received 16 Nov 2023St Marys Church, Queen Square, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EL
Received 16 Nov 2023Lyde Cottage , Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UH
Received 16 Nov 202314 Westbrook Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DP
Received 16 Nov 2023Specsavers Opticians, 17 - 18 Westgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EQ
Received 16 Nov 2023Top Flat Second Floor, 12 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 16 Nov 2023Development Site Next To Somerdale Pavilion, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Nov 2023434 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DH
Received 16 Nov 202393A Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 16 Nov 202393A Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 16 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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