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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55,263 approved · 7,085 refused · 5,124 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
259 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AA
Received 6 Oct 2022Wolverton, 14 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 5 Oct 202224 Westfield Close, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EB
Received 5 Oct 2022Flat 21, Ladymead House, 110 - 112 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BQ
Received 6 Oct 2022Flat 21, Ladymead House, 110 - 112 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BQ
Received 6 Oct 2022The Croft, Blind Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UA
Received 5 Oct 2022Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 2022Parcel 3615, Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 20227 Kennet Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NZ
Received 6 Oct 20222 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 6 Oct 20222 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 6 Oct 20226 Chaffinch Avenue, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FR
Received 6 Oct 2022Rugby Pitch, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Oct 2022Paragon School , Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LT
Received 6 Oct 202210 Worcester Park, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QU
Received 6 Oct 202213A John Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JL
Received 6 Oct 2022Sherborne House, Coley Narrow, Coley, Bristol, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4PR
Received 7 Oct 2022Fairfield Lodge , Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 7 Oct 2022Jubilee Centre , Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 7 Oct 2022Parcel 8983, Wells Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Oct 2022Parcel 4234, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Oct 202229 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LN
Received 7 Oct 2022Ellens Farm , Hinton Blewett Road, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UL
Received 7 Oct 202221 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 7 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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