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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
34,568 approved · 3,287 refused · 3,478 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Barnfield Way, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PW
Received 3 Sept 2021Wellfield House, Parkhouse Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SG
Received 6 Sept 20213 Calton Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PP
Received 6 Sept 202125 Magdalen Avenue, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QB
Received 6 Sept 202111 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 6 Sept 202111 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 6 Sept 2021Ensleigh House, Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BE
Received 6 Sept 20214 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 5 Sept 2021The Marlborough Flat, 30 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 6 Sept 20211 Cleveland Villas, Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 6 Sept 2021Unividual Ltd, Sterling House, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AN
Received 6 Sept 2021Flat 1, Henbury House, Claverton Court, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DN
Received 6 Sept 202131 Wedmore Park, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1JZ
Received 6 Sept 20213 Eden Villas, Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SH
Received 6 Sept 2021The Old Malt House, Clarence Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NS
Received 6 Sept 2021Bath Quays North Development Site, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Sept 2021Bath Quays North Development Site, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Sept 20215 Sydenham Terrace, Tyning Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EX
Received 6 Sept 2021Vellore Cottage, Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JN
Received 6 Sept 20216 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JX
Received 6 Sept 20213 Eastbourne Villas, Claremont Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EL
Received 6 Sept 2021Avondale Garage, High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 6 Sept 2021Hill Farm, Phillis Hill, Midsomer Norton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SL
Received 6 Sept 202136 Bryant Avenue, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3SR
Received 6 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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