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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
39,103 approved · 3,686 refused · 3,734 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Hillside Crescent, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2ND
Received 7 Feb 2022Seletar , Beckford Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NQ
Received 7 Feb 2022Ground Floor Flat, 17 Station Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AZ
Received 7 Feb 2022Castle View , 16 Kingsway, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NH
Received 7 Feb 2022Novar , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 7 Feb 2022Street View , The Street, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PA
Received 7 Feb 202245 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RG
Received 7 Feb 2022Morrison's, 11 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AQ
Received 7 Feb 2022Burial Ground, Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Feb 2022Flat 4, 36 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LY
Received 7 Feb 2022Land Between Stowborough Cottages And Highfield Road, Greenlands Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Feb 2022Innisfree, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SY
Received 7 Feb 202212 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PA
Received 7 Feb 2022Glanworth , 11 Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SQ
Received 7 Feb 202232 Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SL
Received 7 Feb 202234 Upper East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LP
Received 7 Feb 2022Bloomfield Bowling Club, 98 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SD
Received 7 Feb 2022Flat 4, 23A Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TE
Received 7 Feb 20226 Madams Paddock, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PN
Received 7 Feb 202250 St Mary's Close, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HX
Received 7 Feb 2022Flat 2, 34 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QB
Received 3 Feb 202227 Denmark Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RE
Received 7 Feb 2022Double Hill Farm, Double Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PT
Received 7 Feb 2022St John The Baptist Church, Church Square, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 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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