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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
48,111 approved · 5,038 refused · 4,344 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Sept 2007 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
342 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 20222 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SA
Received 23 Jun 202282 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AD
Received 23 Jun 2022The Scala , Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 23 Jun 2022Co-operative Store A, Wells Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RQ
Received 23 Jun 202247 Leighton Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NF
Received 23 Jun 2022Church View , Church Road, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EX
Received 23 Jun 202233 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JX
Received 23 Jun 2022Roans , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LS
Received 24 Jun 2022Durham House , 5 Hamilton Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SB
Received 24 Jun 2022Dowding Villas , Dowding Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QH
Received 24 Jun 20227 Winchester Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LF
Received 24 Jun 2022Loch Fyne Fish Restaurant, 24 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 24 Jun 20223 Ayr Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RJ
Received 24 Jun 202231 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 24 Jun 2022Management Suite, 12 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AQ
Received 24 Jun 202292 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QS
Received 24 Jun 202220 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UJ
Received 24 Jun 202220 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UJ
Received 24 Jun 20229A Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 24 Jun 2022Linne House , Poolemead Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QS
Received 24 Jun 2022Perryhouse Farm , Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XG
Received 24 Jun 2022Meade House , Wedgwood Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QN
Received 24 Jun 2022Naish House , Shaws Way, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SF
Received 24 Jun 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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