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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
40,000 approved · 3,763 refused · 3,783 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Oct 2010 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Roman City Guest House, 18 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 17 Feb 202228 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 17 Feb 202239 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AN
Received 17 Feb 2022Garfunkels, Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 17 Feb 20222 Trinity Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AB
Received 17 Feb 202259 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 17 Feb 20221 West Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RL
Received 18 Feb 20222 Chantry Mead Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DA
Received 18 Feb 2022Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 18 Feb 2022Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 18 Feb 2022Stanley House , Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BP
Received 18 Feb 202241 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HZ
Received 18 Feb 2022117 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DF
Received 15 Feb 2022Church Farm , North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AT
Received 18 Feb 2022Fairfield Lodge , Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 18 Feb 2022Pate, Moorledge Farm, Moorledge Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TL
Received 18 Feb 2022Glenmarrick , Southstoke Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SN
Received 18 Feb 202212 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 Feb 20225 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 18 Feb 2022The Bell, 103 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BW
Received 18 Feb 202229 Stirtingale Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NF
Received 18 Feb 202241 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 18 Feb 202241 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 18 Feb 2022Former Ministry Of Defence Ensleigh, Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 Feb 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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