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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
36,699 approved · 3,488 refused · 3,595 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Fairfield Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JG
Received 17 Dec 2021Site Of Hinton Garage, Albion Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Dec 2021Aston Villa, New Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JH
Received 17 Dec 20211 Riverside Cottages, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PS
Received 17 Dec 2021Kelston House, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RY
Received 17 Dec 2021679 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TZ
Received 17 Dec 202116 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NB
Received 17 Dec 202111 Thomas Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NW
Received 17 Dec 202111 Thomas Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NW
Received 17 Dec 2021Newark Works Unoccupied Premises, 1 - 4 Riverside Business Park, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Dec 20214 Cleveland Place West, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DG
Received 20 Dec 20214 Cleveland Place West, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DG
Received 20 Dec 2021347 Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AD
Received 20 Dec 202134 Green Park Mews, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JD
Received 20 Dec 20216 Eastbourne Avenue, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EW
Received 20 Dec 2021Stonecroft, Blind Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UA
Received 20 Dec 2021Evergreen Cottage, North Wick Road, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NN
Received 20 Dec 2021Pavilion, Keynsham Cricket Ground, Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 2SZ
Received 20 Dec 2021The Roost, Church Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EF
Received 20 Dec 2021Land To East Of Greenway Crescent, Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Dec 202136 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PA
Received 20 Dec 202145 Manor Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RB
Received 20 Dec 202146 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3ES
Received 20 Dec 2021Newark Works Unoccupied Premises, 1 - 4 Riverside Business Park, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Dec 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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