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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
69,014 approved · 9,722 refused · 6,294 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Apr 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 15 Jan 2024Land Parcel 7200, Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Jan 2024St Laurence's Church , Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BD
Received 15 Jan 20245 Hillside Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XG
Received 15 Jan 20243 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 15 Jan 20244 Claude Vale, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AD
Received 15 Jan 202419 Alexandra Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PW
Received 15 Jan 202423 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NG
Received 16 Jan 2024Newbridge Towers , 169 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PX
Received 16 Jan 202415 Brunswick Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PQ
Received 16 Jan 2024The Rookery , Battle Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PS
Received 16 Jan 2024The Rookery , Battle Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PS
Received 16 Jan 2024Land On Corner Opposite 26B To 27, Village Hall Lane, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Jan 2024Parcel 4392, Back Lane, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Jan 20241 Windrush Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QL
Received 16 Jan 202419 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 17 Jan 2024Hanham House , Hanham Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PF
Received 17 Jan 202423 Englishcombe Way, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EU
Received 17 Jan 2024The Church , Carlingcott, Carlingcott, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AN
Received 17 Jan 2024The Church , Carlingcott, Carlingcott, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AN
Received 17 Jan 2024Woodside , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LS
Received 17 Jan 202415 Cherry Tree Close, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TZ
Received 17 Jan 20247 Hillside View, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TB
Received 17 Jan 2024Land Opposite Foxhill Logde, Fox Hill, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Jan 2024Records 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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