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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
42,918 approved · 4,044 refused · 3,924 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
117 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DF
Received 26 Jan 2022Mullion Lodge, 20 St Mary's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BR
Received 26 Jan 20222 Avon Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1LJ
Received 26 Jan 2022King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 26 Jan 2022Abinger, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 26 Jan 20224 Victoria Gardens, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RD
Received 26 Jan 202244 Avondale Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EG
Received 26 Jan 202236 Lytes Cary Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1XD
Received 26 Jan 202242 St John's Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BW
Received 26 Jan 2022Garre House, Sheridan Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RD
Received 26 Jan 20222 Somer Ridge, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2FB
Received 26 Jan 2022Clevedon Cottage, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TJ
Received 26 Jan 2022Parsons Hill, Rectory Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JP
Received 27 Jan 20227 Bailbrook Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AP
Received 27 Jan 2022108 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EJ
Received 25 Jan 2022Mulberry House, Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EU
Received 24 Jan 2022Knowle House, Knowle Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TF
Received 27 Jan 2022The Old Vicarage, 110 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 27 Jan 2022Bali Hai, 1 The Orchard, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BG
Received 27 Jan 2022Telecommunication Mast 54146, Woolley Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Jan 20222 Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AP
Received 31 Mar 202226 Hillside Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2LZ
Received 31 Mar 2022Coppa, 18 - 19 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BP
Received 25 Mar 2022282 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NZ
Received 31 Mar 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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