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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
40,408 approved · 3,804 refused · 3,808 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
76 Frederick Avenue, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8JA
Received 22 Feb 2022Former Timber Drying Shed, Spring Gardens Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Feb 2022Newton Hurst, Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 22 Feb 2022Former Railway Track, Somervale Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Feb 2022Derelict Yard, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Feb 2022118 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LD
Received 23 Feb 202230 Claverton Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DP
Received 23 Feb 2022Windyridge , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QA
Received 23 Feb 202235 Sladebrook Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LB
Received 23 Feb 202211 Windsor Villas, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DJ
Received 23 Feb 202215 Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PU
Received 23 Feb 202215 Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PU
Received 23 Feb 2022Parcel 2100, Parkhouse Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Feb 202289 Albert Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AE
Received 23 Feb 2022High Orchard, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UW
Received 23 Feb 2022120 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DF
Received 23 Feb 2022120 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DF
Received 23 Feb 2022Parcel 9176, Langley's Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Feb 20228 Burleigh Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RR
Received 24 Feb 2022Sewage Purification Works, Mead Lane, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ER
Received 24 Feb 2022Silcox House, 5 - 7 New Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AF
Received 24 Feb 202271 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PE
Received 24 Feb 2022Chapel House, Burnett Hill, Burnett, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TQ
Received 24 Feb 202266 Waterford Park, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TS
Received 24 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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