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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
53,681 approved · 6,611 refused · 4,939 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Dec 2003 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Westfield Farm, Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QW
Received 8 Aug 2022156 Faulkland View, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8TQ
Received 9 Aug 2022Street Record, Hedgemead Park, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Aug 2022Ball Courts, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Aug 2022Woodlands , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HB
Received 9 Aug 20229A Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 9 Aug 2022The Rookery , High Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AX
Received 9 Aug 202215 Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DX
Received 9 Aug 20225 Clover Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NS
Received 9 Aug 20225 Coburg Villas , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JF
Received 9 Aug 2022Hunstrete House, Hunstrete, Marksbury, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NS
Received 9 Aug 2022Hunstrete House, Hunstrete, Marksbury, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NS
Received 9 Aug 202240 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1QH
Received 9 Aug 2022Site Of Old Colliery, Fry's Bottom, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Aug 20222 Timsbury Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AE
Received 9 Aug 2022The Old Stables , Haycombe Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DN
Received 9 Aug 202238 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 10 Aug 202238 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 10 Aug 2022Flat 4, 7 Fountain Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DU
Received 10 Aug 2022Leighton House , 139 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AL
Received 10 Aug 20228 - 9 The Croft, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HQ
Received 10 Aug 2022Parcel 4826, Upper Bristol Road, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 2022Bali Hai , Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DX
Received 10 Aug 2022Unit 1 Wetherspoons King Of Wessex, Kingsmead Leisure Complex, 5 - 10 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 10 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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