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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
50,512 approved · 5,683 refused · 4,619 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Dec 2005 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Recreation Ground , Meadway, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BD
Received 14 Sept 2022Block 49 Accident & Emergency Department, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 14 Sept 2022North Range, Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Sept 2022Part Of Former Railway Used As Car Park, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Sept 20226 Morley Terrace, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3HU
Received 15 Sept 2022Dunkirk Mill , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 15 Sept 202214 Calton Walk, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QQ
Received 15 Sept 20221 Alpine Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PB
Received 15 Sept 202215 Claudius Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FB
Received 15 Sept 2022Elmhurst , Gloucester Road, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BR
Received 15 Sept 202246 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 15 Sept 202246 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 15 Sept 20223 Tucking Mill Cottages, Tucking Mill Lane, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DB
Received 15 Sept 2022Entry Hill House, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 7 Sept 2022Territorial Army, T A Centre, Ashmead Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SX
Received 15 Sept 202223 Salisbury Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QZ
Received 15 Sept 202212 Temple Street, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1EG
Received 15 Sept 2022Street Record, Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Sept 2022Sunnybrow , Manor Park, Writhlington, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3NB
Received 15 Sept 202244 Rackvernal Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2UG
Received 16 Sept 2022Pensford Viaduct, Stanton Lane, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AL
Received 16 Sept 2022National Osteoporosis Society, Manor Farm, Skinners Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PJ
Received 16 Sept 2022The Old Bakery , Jews Lane, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DG
Received 16 Sept 2022Sulis Hospital Bath, Foxcote Avenue, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SQ
Received 16 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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