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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
49,913 approved · 5,516 refused · 4,556 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 2006 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Meadow View, 8 Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QN
Received 25 Aug 20224 Cheap Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NE
Received 25 Aug 20224 Cheap Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NE
Received 25 Aug 20224 Cheap Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NE
Received 25 Aug 20229 Frys Leaze , Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NU
Received 25 Aug 202285 Cotswold Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DN
Received 25 Aug 2022Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 25 Aug 2022170 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 25 Aug 2022Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 25 Aug 2022The Lunch Company, 81 Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BQ
Received 25 Aug 2022Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 25 Aug 20221 Westmoreland Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EU
Received 25 Aug 202244 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 25 Aug 20222 Hillside Crescent, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NB
Received 26 Aug 202235 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BN
Received 26 Aug 2022Mill House , High Street, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EG
Received 26 Aug 2022The Glen , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 26 Aug 202254 Milton Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RA
Received 26 Aug 2022Fishers Lodge , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SX
Received 26 Aug 202276 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TG
Received 26 Aug 2022153 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 26 Aug 20222 Barrow Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TD
Received 26 Aug 202210 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 26 Aug 2022Unregistered Farm Buildings Adjacent To Sandhills, Birchwood Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Aug 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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