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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39,305 approved · 3,696 refused · 3,740 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DF
Received 8 Feb 2022Sheridan, 170 Midford Road, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SF
Received 8 Feb 2022Fieldside, Ashton Hill, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EY
Received 8 Feb 2022Games Workshop, 15 St James's Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UL
Received 8 Feb 2022Kingswood Preparatory School, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SD
Received 8 Feb 20228 Victoria Buildings, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EH
Received 8 Feb 2022Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 8 Feb 202218 Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LQ
Received 8 Feb 2022St Pauls House, 1A St Paul's Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AY
Received 8 Feb 2022Warleigh Fields Farm, Warleigh Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8EE
Received 9 Feb 2022Beechfield, Bathampton Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SJ
Received 9 Feb 20222 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EP
Received 9 Feb 2022Curls Cottage, Moorledge Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TJ
Received 9 Feb 202223 Prospect Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JD
Received 9 Feb 202223 Victoria Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AW
Received 9 Feb 202266 Mountain Wood, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SA
Received 9 Feb 2022Bathampton Manor, Mill Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TS
Received 9 Feb 2022Bathampton Manor, Mill Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TS
Received 9 Feb 202237 St Kilda's Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QL
Received 9 Feb 2022Land Rear 1-6 Woodland Place, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Feb 20223 Herbert Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PP
Received 9 Feb 2022Fitzroy House, 57A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DW
Received 3 Feb 2022220 - 222 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7QZ
Received 4 Feb 2022Audley House, Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 9 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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