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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
43,166 approved · 4,070 refused · 3,945 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fox Hill Lodge, Fox Hill, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AT
Received 4 Apr 2022Skylark Farm, Braysdown Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8NL
Received 5 Apr 202235 Paulton Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2PS
Received 5 Apr 202216 - 17 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AD
Received 5 Apr 2022Parcel 6034, North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Mar 202235 Wedgwood Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NT
Received 5 Apr 2022Parcel 8983, Wells Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Apr 2022Fairhaven Coach House , Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8ES
Received 5 Apr 202295 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RQ
Received 6 Apr 202256 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LW
Received 6 Apr 2022Garden Flat, 6 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AD
Received 6 Apr 202215 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LN
Received 6 Apr 2022Orchard House, 3 Rotcombe Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JW
Received 6 Apr 2022The Vicarage, 13 St Peter's Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BJ
Received 6 Apr 2022Westfield Farm , Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QW
Received 6 Apr 20226 Richmond Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TU
Received 6 Apr 202284 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AD
Received 6 Apr 2022Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd , Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RR
Received 6 Apr 2022Bath Cricket Club, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 6 Apr 2022Plot 13, The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Apr 202212 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 6 Apr 2022Bath Quays South Development Site, Riverside Business Park, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Apr 2022Flat B, 9 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 7 Apr 2022The Royal High School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SZ
Received 7 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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