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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
49,259 approved · 5,346 refused · 4,487 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hall Cottage , 3 High Street, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SW
Received 20 May 202229 Eastfield Avenue, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4HH
Received 23 May 202213 Waldegrave Terrace, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3EY
Received 23 May 2022Haytor , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HP
Received 23 May 20224 Orchard Close, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XJ
Received 23 May 2022The Old Crown , 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 23 May 20222 Grosvenor Terrace , St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SR
Received 23 May 2022Beckford , Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HF
Received 23 May 20225 The Dymboro, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QU
Received 23 May 202215 Greenlands Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EZ
Received 23 May 20229 Holcombe Grove, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EZ
Received 23 May 202240 Down Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QJ
Received 23 May 202217 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 23 May 202220 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 23 May 2022Stonebeck , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 23 May 2022Wyelands , Lower Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PA
Received 24 May 2022Bengrove House , Bengrove, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PH
Received 24 May 2022Apple Loft , Horsecombe Vale, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QR
Received 24 May 20222 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SA
Received 13 May 20228 Claremont Place , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 24 May 2022Bailbrook Field, Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 May 2022Second Floor, 8 Cleveland Place West, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DG
Received 24 May 20221 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LQ
Received 23 May 202289 Albert Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AE
Received 23 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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