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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
54,150 approved · 6,752 refused · 5,004 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Woodhouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1ST
Received 3 Nov 202225 Worcester Park, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QU
Received 3 Nov 2022Bloomfield House Private Hotel , 146 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AS
Received 3 Nov 202226 Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 3 Nov 202273 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RG
Received 3 Nov 2022Street Record, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Nov 202214 Banwell Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UJ
Received 3 Nov 2022Volkswagen Motor Services (bath) Ltd, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EU
Received 3 Nov 2022Shunem Villa , Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 3 Nov 202227 Magdalen Avenue, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QB
Received 3 Nov 2022Jat Environmental Reclamation Ltd, Pensford Hill, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JF
Received 4 Nov 202255 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RJ
Received 4 Nov 20221 College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RS
Received 4 Nov 2022Magna House, Battle Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PX
Received 4 Nov 202230 Millards Hill, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BW
Received 4 Nov 20225 Sion Place, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ES
Received 4 Nov 2022Carclew, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 4 Nov 202231 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DF
Received 4 Nov 2022182 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LE
Received 4 Nov 20225 Somer Ridge, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2FB
Received 4 Nov 202253 Beaufort Avenue, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TG
Received 4 Nov 20226 Belgrave Place , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JL
Received 4 Nov 2022Flat 1, The Old Rectory, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TT
Received 4 Nov 2022Publow Farm , Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HZ
Received 4 Nov 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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