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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
46,878 approved · 4,682 refused · 4,224 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Aug 2008 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Beech Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BA
Received 9 May 2022Wellsway School, Chandag Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1PH
Received 9 May 20221 Golf Course Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JG
Received 9 May 2022Land At Rear Of Priory Nurseries And Glenfield Cottage, Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 May 2022West Lodge , Fox Hill, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AS
Received 9 May 2022St Leonards , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XT
Received 9 May 2022Basement, 68 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AR
Received 9 May 20227 Seymour Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DY
Received 9 May 2022Broughton House , Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RW
Received 9 May 202287 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PJ
Received 10 May 2022Dromana , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 10 May 202214 Gregory's Tyning, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PW
Received 10 May 2022Ranch House Cottage Unregistered Property, Valley View Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 May 20229 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LR
Received 9 May 2022Springfield House , Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 10 May 202213 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1QE
Received 10 May 2022The Hermitage, Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 10 May 2022Walnut Tree House , Fosse Way, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BL
Received 10 May 2022Combe Down Quarries, Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 May 2022Perryhouse Farm , Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XG
Received 10 May 2022107 Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LH
Received 10 May 202280 Bristol Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3EQ
Received 10 May 202280 Bristol Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3EQ
Received 10 May 202234 St Winifred's Drive, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HR
Received 10 May 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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