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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
35,348 approved · 3,352 refused · 3,519 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2011 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rudgeworth, Woollard Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QR
Received 22 Sept 202142 Fairfield Avenue, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NJ
Received 22 Sept 2021Hillside, 27 Entry Hill Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ND
Received 22 Sept 2021Widcombe Hill House, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 22 Sept 2021Widcombe Hill House, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 22 Sept 20217 Fairfield, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DY
Received 23 Sept 2021Damson House, 4 Damson Orchard, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AF
Received 23 Sept 202123 Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QD
Received 23 Sept 2021244 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 23 Sept 20217 Lynton Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AL
Received 23 Sept 202135 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 23 Sept 2021Sawthum Place, Glebelands, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3ST
Received 23 Sept 2021Sunnymount, 17 Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QR
Received 23 Sept 202111 Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SW
Received 23 Sept 2021Site Of 34-35, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Sept 2021Brow House, The Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 23 Sept 2021Bath Cricket Club, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 23 Sept 2021Friends Meeting House, York Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NG
Received 23 Sept 2021Police House, 1 Police Lane, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BP
Received 24 Sept 20214 Ivy Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AP
Received 24 Sept 202124 Winchester Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LF
Received 24 Sept 2021244 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 24 Sept 2021Orchard Cottage, Ridge Lane, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6ES
Received 23 Sept 202152 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PJ
Received 24 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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