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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
49,000 approved · 5,279 refused · 4,451 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Eastover Grove, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2SZ
Received 25 Jul 2022Bath Quays North Development Site, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 2022Bath Quays North Development Site, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 2022Brickhouse Farm, White Cross, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EU
Received 25 Jul 202219 Clapton Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2LW
Received 25 Jul 2022Street Record, South Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 2022Milward House, 1 Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BA
Received 25 Jul 2022Milward House, 1 Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BA
Received 25 Jul 2022Sixth Form Building, Oldfield School, Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AB
Received 25 Jul 2022Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 2022Oldfield Park Junior School , Lymore Terrace, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JL
Received 25 Jul 2022Land & Buildings At Junction With Crab Tree Tyning, Kilkenny Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 20223 Partis Way, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QG
Received 26 Jul 202212 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 2022Flat 7, Kildare, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NR
Received 15 Jul 2022Flat 7, Kildare, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NR
Received 15 Jul 2022Penn Lea House, 50 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RD
Received 26 Jul 2022St Paul's House, 1 St Paul's Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AY
Received 26 Jul 2022Howzat, 102 Withies Park, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2PB
Received 26 Jul 202290 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PB
Received 26 Jul 202274 Holcombe Vale, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UX
Received 26 Jul 202247 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AL
Received 26 Jul 2022The Studio, 19 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 27 Jul 2022The Studio, 19 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 27 Jul 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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