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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
41,054 approved · 3,864 refused · 3,835 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jul 2010 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Ayr Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RJ
Received 7 Jan 2022Store At Rear Of 489 Bath Road, Beech Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HG
Received 7 Jan 20223 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 7 Jan 2022Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Jan 20226 Linden Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YB
Received 7 Jan 2022Stone Lea Cottage, 70 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 7 Jan 2022135 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EL
Received 10 Jan 202227 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NZ
Received 10 Jan 2022Central Gardens, St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 10 Jan 2022Sumela, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 10 Jan 2022Low Eaves, Church Hill, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HF
Received 10 Jan 2022Building And Adjoining Land North East Of Pinkers Farm, Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Jan 202222 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LY
Received 10 Jan 2022Polamco Ltd Unit C, Weston Lock Retail Park, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 10 Jan 2022Somer Cottage, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DE
Received 10 Jan 202217 Ashley Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TT
Received 10 Jan 2022The Galleries Shop, Freshford Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UR
Received 10 Jan 2022Midsomer Norton South Railway Station, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2EY
Received 10 Jan 202211 Broad Croft, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QG
Received 10 Jan 2022Springwoods, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ED
Received 11 Jan 2022Springwoods, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ED
Received 11 Jan 20229 High Street, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HT
Received 11 Jan 2022Tellisford, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BT
Received 11 Jan 2022Copper Beech, 114A Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AR
Received 11 Jan 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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