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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
29,574 approved · 2,882 refused · 3,180 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 Chandag Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1PW
Received 10 Aug 2021Flower And Hayes Ltd, North Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 2021Lawn Cottage, Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AY
Received 10 Aug 2021Parcel 0045 North, Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 202139 Nightingale Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4NL
Received 10 Aug 2021Ashmead Park, Ashmead Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 202116 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QF
Received 10 Aug 202139 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QA
Received 10 Aug 2021Churrascaria Tio Joao, 55 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DQ
Received 10 Aug 2021Lawrence Farm, North Wick, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NP
Received 10 Aug 202176 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HP
Received 10 Aug 2021Primrose Hill Farm, Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 11 Aug 2021Primrose Hill House, 2 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2US
Received 11 Aug 202116A Beckford Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QU
Received 11 Aug 20219 Britten's Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RZ
Received 9 Aug 2021Parcel 3615, Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Aug 20217 Lynton Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AL
Received 11 Aug 20215 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RW
Received 11 Aug 20218 Entry Hill Gardens, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NR
Received 11 Aug 202134 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SU
Received 11 Aug 2021Yew Tree Cottage, Yew Tree Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JS
Received 11 Aug 2021Harptree House, Whitecross Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AA
Received 11 Aug 2021Bath Bowling Club, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EZ
Received 11 Aug 20216 Warleigh Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8EE
Received 11 Aug 2021Records 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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