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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
34,366 approved · 3,257 refused · 3,462 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 1 Sept 202130 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 1 Sept 2021Stanley House, Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 1 Sept 2021Wisteria House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 2 Sept 202152 Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PS
Received 2 Sept 202112 St Keyna Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UD
Received 2 Sept 202173 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HN
Received 2 Sept 2021The Old Garden, All Saints Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HE
Received 2 Sept 2021Chantry Farm, Stockwood Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 8NE
Received 2 Sept 20216 Holcombe Grove, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EZ
Received 2 Sept 2021The Byre, School Place, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BG
Received 1 Sept 20219 George Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BP
Received 1 Sept 20213 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 1 Sept 20212 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 1 Sept 20212 Dene Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RL
Received 2 Sept 2021The Abbey Rectory, Redwood House, Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 2 Sept 20212 St Luke's Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BB
Received 3 Sept 2021Cranleigh, 159 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PX
Received 3 Sept 202129 Victoria Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AW
Received 3 Sept 202130 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DF
Received 3 Sept 20216 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AD
Received 3 Sept 2021Basement Flat, 2 Great Bedford Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TZ
Received 3 Sept 2021Chivers House, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 3 Sept 202111 Fuller Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BB
Received 3 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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