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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
55,500 approved · 7,151 refused · 5,155 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Kingston House , Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 14 Oct 2022Kingston House , Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LA
Received 14 Oct 2022Attwood Apartments, 3 Rockery Park, North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DN
Received 14 Oct 2022Land East Of North Road, Golf Course Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Oct 20225 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HD
Received 14 Oct 2022Parcel 5761, Golf Course Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Oct 2022136 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1JF
Received 14 Oct 2022Glenavon Farm, 331 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3TJ
Received 14 Oct 2022The Lodge, Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SW
Received 14 Oct 20228 Torridge Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QG
Received 14 Oct 2022Maisonette, 38 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BZ
Received 14 Oct 2022Parcel 8408, Wick Lane, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Oct 2022Parcel 8408, Wick Lane, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Oct 202210 Tiberius Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FF
Received 15 Oct 2022Long Meadow , Tuckers Lane, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PB
Received 16 Oct 2022Lower Shockerwick Lodge , Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LP
Received 17 Oct 2022Merrymeet , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 17 Oct 202213 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1QE
Received 17 Oct 202257 West Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QD
Received 17 Oct 2022Norton Hill Recreation Ground, Fosseway, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Oct 20227 Manor Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RH
Received 17 Oct 202289 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PE
Received 17 Oct 2022Juniper House , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LP
Received 17 Oct 202297 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 17 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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