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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
31,600 approved · 3,026 refused · 3,296 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Garden House, Rush Hill, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6AG
Received 12 Jul 2021Caunterbury, Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QY
Received 12 Jul 2021Devon Cottage, North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AS
Received 13 Jul 202134 Tyning End, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AP
Received 13 Jul 2021Staplehurst, Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UH
Received 30 Jun 2021Church Farm, North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AT
Received 13 Jul 202112 Lytes Cary Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1XD
Received 14 Jul 2021Coley Manor Farm, Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 14 Jul 2021Coley Manor Farm, Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 14 Jul 2021The Ferns, Deadmill Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DE
Received 14 Jul 202135 Kensington Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LH
Received 14 Jul 2021River View, Steel Mills, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1EZ
Received 14 Jul 2021Pandora, 16 Southgate Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AP
Received 14 Jul 202129 Partis Way, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QQ
Received 14 Jul 202130 Woodcroft, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XN
Received 14 Jul 2021Derelict Farm Buildings, Marksbury Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jul 2021Dornie, Goosard Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HJ
Received 14 Jul 20219 Badminton Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XS
Received 14 Jul 20216 Grosvenor Park, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BL
Received 14 Jul 20213 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EW
Received 28 Sept 202114 St George's Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RN
Received 28 Sept 2021The Garden House, 29 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 28 Sept 2021Land Adjacent To Meadow Barn, Wick Lane, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Sept 2021Warleigh Fields Farm, Warleigh Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8EE
Received 28 Sept 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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