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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42,918 approved · 4,044 refused · 3,924 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
High Frith , Prospect Place, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TP
Received 31 Mar 2022Street Record, Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 2022Chelscombe Farm, Fonthill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BA
Received 31 Mar 2022Chelscombe Farm, Fonthill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BA
Received 31 Mar 2022Stonecroft , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 31 Mar 202245 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 31 Mar 2022Basement, 1 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 1 Apr 2022Basement, 1 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 1 Apr 2022Former Police Station, Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Apr 2022Clovelly, Farrington Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LP
Received 1 Apr 202224 Woodhouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SU
Received 1 Apr 2022Powswood, Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QY
Received 1 Apr 202224 Kensington Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LH
Received 1 Apr 2022Denny View , 1 Highmead Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XB
Received 1 Apr 202237 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 1 Apr 2022News For You, 22 Moorland Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PW
Received 24 Mar 2022Harptree Court, Whitecross Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AA
Received 1 Apr 20225 Webbs Mead, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TP
Received 1 Apr 2022Grafton Jones Tax Advisors, The Cottage, 2 Temple Street, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1EG
Received 1 Apr 2022Providence House, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TY
Received 1 Apr 202255A High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DQ
Received 1 Apr 202217 Sydenham Buildings, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BS
Received 1 Apr 20229 Waterford Park, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TS
Received 1 Apr 2022The Paddocks , Timsbury Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DA
Received 1 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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