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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
38,614 approved · 3,659 refused · 3,711 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 3 Dec 202126 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NQ
Received 3 Dec 2021King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 3 Dec 2021Glenavon Farm, 331 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3TJ
Received 3 Dec 2021Garden House, St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PR
Received 4 Dec 2021Garden Cottage, Wells Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BA
Received 6 Dec 2021Isabella Mews, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EH
Received 4 Dec 2021Southstoke Hall, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 4 Dec 2021New Inn, 90 Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1HN
Received 27 Jan 202271 Cameley Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SB
Received 28 Jan 2022River House, Friary Wood Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UE
Received 28 Jan 2022Orchard End, Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TU
Received 28 Jan 2022Land And Buildings North Of 29, Kelston Mills, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jan 202222 Highfields, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3UH
Received 28 Jan 20226 Gordon Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NH
Received 28 Jan 20229A Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 28 Jan 202235 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XG
Received 28 Jan 20226 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JX
Received 28 Jan 202231 Torridge Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QQ
Received 27 Jan 2022Barberini, The Glen, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JR
Received 28 Jan 202212 Triangle Villas, Triangle East, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JG
Received 28 Jan 2022Commercial Parking Site, Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jan 20221 Claverton Drive, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AJ
Received 28 Jan 2022West Brow, Belmont Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JR
Received 28 Jan 2022Records 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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