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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
49,378 approved · 5,385 refused · 4,510 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Marchant's Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7PN
Received 24 May 2022Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 May 202229 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LH
Received 24 May 2022Ground Floor, 44 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AP
Received 24 May 2022117 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PT
Received 24 May 2022First Floor, 5 Cleveland Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DF
Received 24 May 202223 Horsecombe Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QY
Received 24 May 2022223 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HH
Received 24 May 202215 High Meadows, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2RY
Received 24 May 2022113 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1HZ
Received 24 May 2022Upper Flat, 135 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AN
Received 25 May 20221 Cranhill Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YF
Received 25 May 202246 Vellore Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JQ
Received 25 May 20223 Hermitage Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SN
Received 25 May 202211 Dovers Park, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7UB
Received 25 May 2022Flat 4, Circus Mansions, 36 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LJ
Received 25 May 2022Flat 4, Circus Mansions, 36 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LJ
Received 25 May 202230 St Martin's Court , Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RQ
Received 25 May 202220 Lansdown Heights, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AE
Received 25 May 2022The Old Crown , 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 25 May 202230 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NF
Received 25 May 2022Parcel 4234, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 May 202243 Claverton Road West, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DU
Received 25 May 2022Rose Lawn , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JE
Received 25 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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