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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
68,582 approved · 9,650 refused · 6,251 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8DX
Received 21 Nov 202347 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PQ
Received 16 Nov 202315 Frys Leaze , Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NU
Received 21 Nov 2023Hillside Garage, 243 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2ER
Received 21 Nov 2023Ground Floor, 38 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 21 Nov 2023Primrose Lodge , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UX
Received 22 Nov 202376 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AP
Received 22 Nov 202318 Bennett's Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AW
Received 21 Nov 2023Parcel 1200, High Street, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Nov 2023The Old Post Office , 28 High Street, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HT
Received 22 Nov 202347 Kipling Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RB
Received 22 Nov 2023Clandown Farm , Pow's Hill, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XN
Received 22 Nov 2023Orchard House , 61D Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 22 Nov 2023Mill House , School Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7ER
Received 22 Nov 2023Bloomfield House , 146 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AS
Received 22 Nov 2023Abbotsleigh , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 23 Nov 202397 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 23 Nov 2023The Old Farm House , 1 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 23 Nov 2023Mulberry House , Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EU
Received 26 Dec 202212 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HJ
Received 1 Feb 202410 Elm Court, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2RB
Received 1 Feb 202417 Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 1 Feb 2024Sewage Purification Works , Mead Lane, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ER
Received 2 Feb 202419 Westgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EQ
Received 2 Feb 2024Records 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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