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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
39,548 approved · 3,721 refused · 3,757 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hartham House, 5 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UF
Received 8 Feb 2022Haute Combe, 176 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LE
Received 11 Feb 202210 Highbury Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DU
Received 11 Feb 202210 Highbury Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DU
Received 11 Feb 2022The Old Vicarage, 110 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 11 Feb 2022The Old Vicarage, 110 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 11 Feb 20226 Cleevedale Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QS
Received 11 Feb 2022Land Between Combeside And Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Feb 202260 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BN
Received 11 Feb 2022Youth Hostels Association, Fiesole, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JZ
Received 11 Feb 202253 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JQ
Received 11 Feb 202253 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RJ
Received 11 Feb 2022Basement, 2 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PZ
Received 11 Feb 2022Carrswood Adult Day Centre, Cleeve Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RS
Received 14 Feb 202215 The Crescent, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DG
Received 14 Feb 2022St Catherines , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AD
Received 14 Feb 2022Mulberry House , Golf Course Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JG
Received 14 Feb 2022Monksmead , Deadmill Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DE
Received 14 Feb 202250 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 14 Feb 202226 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 14 Feb 2022Stirtingale Lodge, Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BA
Received 14 Feb 20227 Tennyson Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UJ
Received 14 Feb 2022Sydney House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Feb 2022Sydney House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 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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