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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
44,701 approved · 4,228 refused · 4,017 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Sept 2009 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
124 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LD
Received 27 Apr 202217 Chivers Street, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BH
Received 27 Apr 2022The Field , Old Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AZ
Received 27 Apr 202212 Milton Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3XH
Received 27 Apr 202212 Vernslade, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DN
Received 27 Apr 2022Green Park Station , Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JB
Received 27 Apr 2022135 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QT
Received 27 Apr 2022Parcel 4234, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Apr 2022Staddle Stones , Smitham's Hill, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BY
Received 27 Apr 2022Red Lion , The Street, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UT
Received 27 Apr 20224 Forester Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QX
Received 27 Apr 202224 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 28 Apr 2022Camerton And Peasedown Croquet Club, Whitebrook Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Apr 2022Land At Rear, Tennis Court Cottages, Tennis Court Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Apr 20221 Keel's Hill, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EW
Received 28 Apr 20223 Moorsfield, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SR
Received 28 Apr 20223 Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QA
Received 28 Apr 20228 Hill View, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UJ
Received 28 Apr 2022Barton House, 6 The Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 28 Apr 2022Top Flat, 13 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 28 Apr 2022Jasmine Cottage , Main Road, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NR
Received 28 Apr 2022Flat 2 Ground Floor, Rivers House, Russell Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QF
Received 28 Apr 20226 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RF
Received 29 Apr 2022Cheddar House, Tunley Farm, Tunley Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DL
Received 29 Apr 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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