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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
34,921 approved · 3,314 refused · 3,503 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jan 2012 to 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Westmoreland Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EU
Received 15 Sept 2021Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Sept 2021Basement Flat, 44 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PA
Received 15 Sept 2021Basement Flat, 44 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PA
Received 15 Sept 2021Unit 5A, The Foundry, Beehive Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BT
Received 15 Sept 2021145 Whiteway Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RG
Received 16 Sept 2021Vane Cottage, 22 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JU
Received 16 Sept 202134 Gores Park, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6YG
Received 16 Sept 2021Tolcombe, 42 Junction Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LD
Received 16 Sept 20218 Beckford Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QU
Received 16 Sept 202125 Prospect Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JD
Received 16 Sept 202125 Prospect Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JD
Received 16 Sept 202113 - 14 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LR
Received 16 Sept 202112 Triangle Villas, Triangle East, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JG
Received 16 Sept 2021Prior Park Garden Centre, Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 16 Sept 202175 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 17 Sept 2021Chaucer House, 1 The Cedars, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TR
Received 17 Sept 20211 Crandale Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HX
Received 17 Sept 202110 Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 17 Sept 202173 Poplar Close, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JA
Received 17 Sept 20213 Bannerdown Drive, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JW
Received 17 Sept 2021West Clewes, North Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QD
Received 17 Sept 2021Former Ministry Of Defence Ensleigh, Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Sept 202123 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 17 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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