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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
38,378 approved · 3,627 refused · 3,697 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Feb 2011 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Park House, Station Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BN
Received 30 Nov 2021Parcel 4234, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Nov 2021Park House, Station Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BN
Received 30 Nov 2021Eastcourt, Charlcombe Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TP
Received 30 Nov 20215 Cedar Villas, Cedar Walk, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HW
Received 30 Nov 202113 Chatham Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BS
Received 30 Nov 2021Former Police Station, Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Nov 20216 Madams Paddock, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PN
Received 30 Nov 202111 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 1 Dec 2021Walton House, 45 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 1 Dec 20214 Greenway Crescent, Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4FB
Received 1 Dec 20212 Coburg Villas, Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JF
Received 1 Dec 2021Coombe House, Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LR
Received 1 Dec 202114 Kenilworth Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2PB
Received 1 Dec 2021Levante, Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BY
Received 1 Dec 2021Land At Rear Of 9 And 10, Larkhall Place, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Dec 2021Abbots Leigh Coach House, Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 1 Dec 2021Yewbury, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 1 Dec 2021Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Dec 2021Flat 7, Midsomer Apartments, 36 Chilcompton Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NR
Received 1 Dec 2021The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Dec 2021Additional Development Area, Holburne Park, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Dec 20219 Hensley Gardens, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DS
Received 1 Dec 2021Rose Cottage, Wells Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AY
Received 1 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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