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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
56,167 approved · 7,303 refused · 5,205 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Dec 2003 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
1 Tyning Hill, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3ET
Received 23 Dec 2022Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses, Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3EP
Received 23 Dec 202226 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QA
Received 23 Dec 2022Klondyke House , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AB
Received 23 Dec 202217 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 23 Dec 2022Barn In Parcel 8966, North Hill Farm, The Hollow, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Dec 20223 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 23 Dec 2022Centurion House, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Dec 202257 Bay Tree Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NE
Received 26 Dec 202229 Hayes Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QJ
Received 26 Dec 2022Hillside , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 27 Dec 2022The Old Rectory, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Dec 20229 Wiltshire Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NW
Received 27 Dec 202214 Devonshire Buildings, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SP
Received 27 Dec 20226 Copseland, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EA
Received 28 Dec 2022Three Ways , Station Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PD
Received 28 Dec 20224 Dunsford Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 23 Dec 2022Hope House, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Dec 202214 Mells Lane, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3NN
Received 28 Dec 2022Goodfield House, 192 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TF
Received 28 Dec 202249 Rock Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1BP
Received 29 Dec 2022Grove House, Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 28 Dec 2022Grove House West, Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 28 Dec 202244 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 28 Dec 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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