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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
42,676 approved · 4,017 refused · 3,908 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
165 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PX
Received 24 Jan 2022Solsbury View Cottage, 15 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TU
Received 24 Jan 2022Solsbury View Cottage, 15 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TU
Received 24 Jan 20228 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 24 Jan 20228 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 24 Jan 202217 Woodhouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1ST
Received 24 Jan 202212A St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 24 Jan 20225 Raglans Terrace, Ragland Lane, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HR
Received 24 Jan 2022Willow Barn, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PU
Received 24 Jan 202216 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YD
Received 24 Jan 202210 Summer Leaze, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5EG
Received 24 Jan 202221 Henrietta Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NA
Received 24 Jan 2022Chewton Place, Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jan 202253 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LW
Received 24 Jan 2022Northwell Cottage, Priston Road, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EA
Received 24 Jan 2022Meadow Farm, Ruett Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UP
Received 24 Jan 2022The Willows, 1 Quarry Hay, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XT
Received 24 Jan 202211 The Havory, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RR
Received 24 Jan 2022Durley Hill House, Old Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AH
Received 25 Jan 2022Durley Hill House, Old Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AH
Received 25 Jan 2022147 Catherine Way, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PB
Received 25 Jan 2022Old School House, Main Road, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NW
Received 25 Jan 202224 Southcot Place, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PE
Received 25 Jan 2022Store At Rear Of 489 Bath Road, Beech Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HG
Received 25 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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