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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
50,404 approved · 5,656 refused · 4,603 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
75 Poplar Close, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JA
Received 10 Sept 202217 Eagle Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HL
Received 10 Sept 2022Bath Cricket Club, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 12 Sept 202225 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 12 Sept 202238 Brougham Hayes, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QU
Received 12 Sept 2022Flat 2, 41A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DP
Received 12 Sept 2022Flat 2, 41A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DP
Received 12 Sept 202255 Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QF
Received 12 Sept 2022Densley View , Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DP
Received 12 Sept 2022Midford Manor Care Home, Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RE
Received 12 Sept 202213 Mount Beacon, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QP
Received 12 Sept 2022Yorick House , Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LT
Received 12 Sept 2022Rosewood Manor, Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EU
Received 12 Sept 202253 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JQ
Received 12 Sept 202213 Mount Beacon, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QP
Received 12 Sept 2022Yewbury, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 12 Sept 202220 Triangle East, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HZ
Received 12 Sept 2022Hillcroft , Nempnett Street, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YW
Received 12 Sept 2022Christ Church Mews, Julian Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Sept 2022Bath Cricket Club, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 12 Sept 20221 Combeside, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LU
Received 12 Sept 202230 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XN
Received 12 Sept 2022Prospect House , Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 13 Sept 2022Lynwell, Eckweek Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PW
Received 13 Sept 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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