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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
39,305 approved · 3,696 refused · 3,740 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
477 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BA
Received 31 Jan 2022Bailbrook House Hotel, Eveleigh Avenue, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JD
Received 4 Feb 202240 Southstoke Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SN
Received 7 Feb 2022Unnamed Bridge At Bath Quays, New Bridge Between Green Park Road And Newark Works, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Feb 20222 Grosvenor Terrace, St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SR
Received 7 Feb 2022Green Valley, Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LP
Received 7 Feb 20228 Egerton Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DP
Received 7 Feb 2022Sydenham Cottage, 2 Sydenham Place, Alexandra Place, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ET
Received 7 Feb 2022Lantern House , 4 Bannerdown Close, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JN
Received 7 Feb 20222 Rockhall Cottages , Rock Hall Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JF
Received 7 Feb 20221 Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AE
Received 4 Feb 2022Unregistered Annexe, Radford Villa, Weekesley Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Feb 2022Chew Valley Lake Walking And Cycle Trail, Walley Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Feb 20222 Raglan Villas, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HZ
Received 8 Feb 2022Beaumont House, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RD
Received 8 Feb 202213 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 8 Feb 202213 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 8 Feb 202214 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JZ
Received 8 Feb 20225 Crescent View, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QH
Received 8 Feb 2022Broughton House, Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RW
Received 8 Feb 2022Holly Farm, The Green, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AY
Received 8 Feb 2022Holly Farm, The Green, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AY
Received 8 Feb 202225 Chilton Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DR
Received 8 Feb 20227 Horsecombe Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QY
Received 8 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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