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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
33,536 approved · 3,171 refused · 3,408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church Farm Cottage, Penn Hill Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SQ
Received 27 Oct 202126 Nightingale Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4NL
Received 27 Oct 2021Land To Front Of 205, Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Oct 2021Twerton Villa, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Oct 20217 George Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EH
Received 27 Oct 20212B Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 17 Dec 2020Newbridge House, Bristol Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XE
Received 27 Oct 2021The Kitchen, 6 Green Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JY
Received 27 Oct 2021The Kitchen, 6 Green Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JY
Received 27 Oct 202111 King George's Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BJ
Received 27 Oct 2021The Beaufort Bookshop, 1 Beaufort Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RP
Received 28 Oct 2021The Old Pig Sty, 4 The Cedars, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TR
Received 28 Oct 2021Crofton House, Blind Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UA
Received 28 Oct 2021Parcel 5663, Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Oct 2021Keynsham Masonic Hall, 99 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SR
Received 28 Oct 202186 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QA
Received 27 Oct 202129 Hampton View, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JL
Received 28 Oct 20211 The Colliers, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UR
Received 28 Oct 2021Field House, Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TU
Received 28 Oct 2021Barn At Upper Hayes, Bath Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Oct 20212B Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 29 Oct 202116 Woodland Grove, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AT
Received 29 Oct 20213 Lansdown Place West, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EZ
Received 29 Oct 2021Robinia House, 120 Wellsway, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1JB
Received 29 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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