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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
47,534 approved · 4,887 refused · 4,279 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Dec 2007 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 24 Mar 202247 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JZ
Received 25 Mar 20222 Holly Drive, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BT
Received 25 Mar 2022Street Record, Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 2022Street Record, Wellow Lane, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 20224 Mount Beacon Place , Richmond Hill, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SP
Received 25 Mar 2022Yeo Valley Soring, Mill Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 20224 Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NR
Received 25 Mar 20221 Sion Hill Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SJ
Received 25 Mar 2022Coppa, 18 - 19 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BP
Received 25 Mar 202213 Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SQ
Received 28 Mar 2022Woodbridge Farm , Bickfield Lane, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PX
Received 28 Mar 2022Street Record, Access Road To Paper Mill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Mar 202254 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AE
Received 28 Mar 20227 Middle Lane, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LS
Received 28 Mar 2022Somersby Orchard , The Gug, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6YQ
Received 28 Mar 2022Second Floor Flat, 9 Beaufort East, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QD
Received 28 Mar 2022Public Open Space, Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Mar 2022Unit 2, Kingsmead Leisure Complex, 5 - 10 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 28 Mar 2022Glenavon Farm, 331 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3TJ
Received 28 Mar 202254 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 28 Mar 2022Land And Buildings To South Of Double Hill Farm, Wellow Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Mar 2022Spinnaker House , Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BE
Received 28 Mar 2022Flat 3 First Floor, 3 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 28 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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