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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
47,259 approved · 4,788 refused · 4,261 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Devonshire Buildings, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SP
Received 7 Mar 20222 Limekilns Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1HR
Received 14 Mar 2022Brook House, Peterside, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AB
Received 15 Mar 2022Court Farm, Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EP
Received 15 Mar 202218 Connaught Mansions , Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BP
Received 15 Mar 2022The Trinity Inn , 49 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DA
Received 15 Mar 2022Edgehill House , Withymills, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EY
Received 15 Mar 2022The Park Cottage , Norton Lane, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HA
Received 15 Mar 202281 Fairfield Park Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JR
Received 15 Mar 2022Barn East Of Ivy Cottage, Queen Charlton Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Mar 20226 Dryleaze, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2DA
Received 15 Mar 2022Mintern, 162 Midford Road, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SE
Received 15 Mar 2022North Range, Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Mar 2022Kingston House , Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 15 Mar 2022Old Welton Hill Farm, Binces Lodge Lane, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XQ
Received 15 Mar 2022St Andrew's C Of E Va Primary School, Northampton Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SN
Received 16 Mar 2022The Dental Implant Clinic, 24 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JZ
Received 16 Mar 2022Half Acre, North Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QQ
Received 16 Mar 202219 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 16 Mar 202257 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DW
Received 16 Mar 202254 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 16 Mar 2022Chew Valley Lake Walking And Cycle Trail, Walley Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Mar 20229 Ashley Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TT
Received 16 Mar 20221 Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AR
Received 16 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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