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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68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pumping Station, Ham Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Nov 2023Durley Hill House , Old Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AH
Received 16 Nov 2023Parcel 6536, Top Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Nov 2023Barcroft , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LP
Received 16 Nov 2023Mill Farm , Vicarage Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4LA
Received 16 Nov 2023Canal Gardens Allotments, Lime Grove Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Nov 2023Rally Field, Lower Stoke, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Nov 2023Barnbridge House , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 17 Nov 202333 Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JZ
Received 17 Nov 2023Badminton Villa , 10 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JZ
Received 17 Nov 2023Flat 4, Sydney House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NU
Received 17 Nov 2023Primrose Cottage , 14 Quarry Vale, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JZ
Received 17 Nov 2023Lower Maisonette, 34 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 17 Nov 2023Lower Maisonette, 34 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ND
Received 17 Nov 202354 Lansdown View, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BQ
Received 20 Nov 202310 Riverside Gardens, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NS
Received 20 Nov 202377 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JQ
Received 20 Nov 20234 Henley View, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PZ
Received 20 Nov 2023143 Calton Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PP
Received 20 Nov 202327 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 20 Nov 2023153 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 20 Nov 2023100 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SD
Received 20 Nov 202311 Brunswick Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PQ
Received 20 Nov 2023Flat 1, 22 Great Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BQ
Received 20 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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