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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
30,275 approved · 2,935 refused · 3,218 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
18 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 24 Aug 202138 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 24 Aug 20213 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 24 Aug 2021Unit 4 Kier Integrated Services Limited, Ashmead Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SX
Received 24 Aug 2021Middle Cottage, 48 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 24 Aug 202127 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 24 Aug 2021Bath Quays Bridge, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Aug 2021Treetops, Gloucester Road, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AD
Received 24 Aug 2021Greenacres Farm, Bristol Road, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6NQ
Received 25 Aug 202114 The Crescent, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DG
Received 25 Aug 2021Parcel 3615, Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Aug 202110 Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BJ
Received 25 Aug 202110 Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BJ
Received 25 Aug 202110 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NW
Received 25 Aug 2021Garfunkels, Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 25 Aug 2021The Old Vicarage, 110 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 24 Jun 20215 Chapel Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HN
Received 24 Jun 2021Rose Cottage, Cleeve Hill, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PE
Received 24 Jun 202146 Ivy Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AL
Received 24 Jun 2021Southstoke Lodge, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 24 Jun 2021Southstoke Lodge, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 24 Jun 202121 Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QX
Received 24 Jun 20219 Triangle Villas, Triangle East, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JG
Received 24 Jun 2021Land At Rear Of Rose And Laurel Place, Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jun 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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