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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
55,263 approved · 7,085 refused · 5,124 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
59 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 10 Oct 202259 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 10 Oct 20227 Willow Green, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DW
Received 9 Oct 202251 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 10 Oct 20224 Beaufort West, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QB
Received 9 Oct 20228 Bathwick Place , Sydney Wharf, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BG
Received 10 Oct 20225 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YD
Received 9 Oct 2022Land And Buildings Between The Spinney And Barn Cottage, Old Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Oct 202212 St James's Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UL
Received 9 Oct 202212 St James's Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UL
Received 9 Oct 2022Circus Mansions, 36 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Oct 2022Firbank House, 32 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 10 Oct 2022Newbridge House , 198 Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 10 Oct 2022Midford Manor Care Home, Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RE
Received 10 Oct 20222 Rose Cottages , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EQ
Received 10 Oct 2022Bath Cricket Club , North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 10 Oct 2022Parcel 2727, Kingshill Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Oct 20221 Claverton Drive, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AJ
Received 10 Oct 2022Splott Farm, Withyditch Lane, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AU
Received 10 Oct 2022Clandown Stores, 1 Fosse Way, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BL
Received 7 Oct 202222 Durley Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NT
Received 10 Oct 202221 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 10 Oct 202211 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ED
Received 10 Oct 2022Yorick House , Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LT
Received 10 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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