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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
39,767 approved · 3,743 refused · 3,767 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
82 Holloway, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PT
Received 16 Feb 202210 Ham Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TW
Received 16 Feb 202232 Westerleigh Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JE
Received 16 Feb 2022Cafe Rouge, 15 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 16 Feb 2022Raemar , 3 Hobbs Wall, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BH
Received 16 Feb 2022Cafe Rouge, 15 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 16 Feb 2022Manor Farm House Nursing Home , Church Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QG
Received 16 Feb 2022Manor Farm House Nursing Home , Church Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QG
Received 16 Feb 2022The Old Bakery , Jews Lane, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DG
Received 16 Feb 20228 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AL
Received 16 Feb 2022Bridge House , Streamside, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RQ
Received 16 Feb 2022Manor End , Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UW
Received 16 Feb 20229 Oliver Brooks Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2LA
Received 17 Feb 2022Tennis Court House , Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BY
Received 17 Feb 2022182 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NG
Received 17 Feb 2022The Salvation Army, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1XE
Received 17 Feb 2022Parcel 0047, Ferney Leaze Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Feb 20224 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RU
Received 14 Feb 20222 St Luke's Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BB
Received 15 Feb 20221 Wick House Close, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BZ
Received 17 Feb 2022Coach House, Claverton Hill, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BB
Received 17 Feb 2022Coach House, Claverton Hill, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BB
Received 17 Feb 2022No 1, The Batch, Tadwick Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BX
Received 17 Feb 2022Garfunkels, Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 17 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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