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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
55,137 approved · 7,056 refused · 5,116 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former Police Station, Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Oct 2022Newark Works Unoccupied Premises, 1 - 4 Riverside Business Park, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Oct 202231 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QE
Received 4 Oct 2022Combeside , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 4 Oct 20223 Bannerdown Drive, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JW
Received 4 Oct 2022Land To South Of Widcombe Lodge, South Widcombe, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Oct 2022Holly Tree Farm , Old Bath Road, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 4 Oct 2022Greenleigh Farm, Wells Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QR
Received 5 Oct 2022Three Ways , Station Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PD
Received 5 Oct 202247 Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QE
Received 5 Oct 2022Horseworld Development Site, Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Sept 20225 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Oct 20225 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Oct 202221 The Grove, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6ES
Received 5 Oct 2022Archways , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SX
Received 5 Oct 2022Flat 6, Grove House, 12 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HA
Received 5 Oct 2022Beechwoods , 1 Beechwood Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JS
Received 5 Oct 20224 The Firs, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ED
Received 5 Oct 2022Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Oct 2022The Cottage , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 5 Oct 2022Combeside , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 5 Oct 2022The Nest, 7 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 5 Oct 20228 Hatfield Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AF
Received 6 Oct 20228 Hatfield Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AF
Received 6 Oct 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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