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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
33,289 approved · 3,148 refused · 3,396 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
182 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AA
Received 25 Oct 2021Camelot, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UR
Received 24 Oct 202128 Flatwoods Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AQ
Received 24 Oct 2021The Old Manor, The Street, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PJ
Received 24 Oct 2021Flat 2, Claverton Lodge, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EN
Received 22 Oct 2021Cinderlands, Cameley Road, Cameley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AF
Received 21 Oct 2021Honeysuckle Farm, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AU
Received 25 Oct 2021Flat 3, 5 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NF
Received 22 Oct 202189 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 25 Oct 2021St James's Church, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DW
Received 22 Oct 202116 Lansdown Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LR
Received 25 Oct 2021Homewood Park Hotel, Homewood, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TB
Received 25 Oct 202119 Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JX
Received 25 Oct 202137 Nightingale Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4NL
Received 25 Oct 202127 Chalfield Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1JZ
Received 25 Oct 2021The Studio, Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Oct 2021Former Garden Centre, Whitegate Nurseries, Stockwood Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Oct 202163 Coxley Drive, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PD
Received 25 Oct 202113 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 25 Oct 202113 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 25 Oct 20216 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JX
Received 25 Oct 2021Sherborne House, Coley Narrow, Coley, Bristol, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4PR
Received 25 Oct 2021Sherborne House, Coley Narrow, Coley, Bristol, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4PR
Received 25 Oct 2021Land West Of Barrow Castle, Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Oct 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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