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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
56,278 approved · 7,333 refused · 5,211 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Tatters, Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 28 Dec 2022Leighton House , 139 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AL
Received 29 Dec 2022Dunkirk Mill Cottage , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 29 Dec 20229 King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PD
Received 30 Dec 2022Street Record, Duke Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Dec 202240 Haycombe Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PG
Received 30 Dec 2022Ground Floor Flat, 23 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TE
Received 31 Jan 2023Park Farm House , Hunstrete, Marksbury, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NT
Received 31 Jan 2023Homewood Park Hotel , Homewood, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TB
Received 31 Jan 2023Shirley Villa , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 31 Jan 20233 Hicks Field, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BZ
Received 31 Jan 202338 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LZ
Received 1 Feb 202334 Russet Way, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8ST
Received 1 Feb 20231 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LZ
Received 1 Feb 2023Hillscroft , Bull's Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 1 Feb 2023Garden Flat, 6 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 1 Feb 2023Top Flat, 6 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 1 Feb 2023Fieldview House , Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DP
Received 1 Feb 2023Crescent Garden Lodge , Crescent Gardens, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NA
Received 1 Feb 2023Hall Cottage , 3 High Street, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SW
Received 1 Feb 20234 Avon Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1LJ
Received 1 Feb 202327 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QE
Received 1 Feb 20231 Cambridge Place, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 31 Jan 2023Russell&bromley, 16 - 17 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BP
Received 1 Feb 2023Records 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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