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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
71,504 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenhaven , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 26 Apr 2024Venley , Broomhill Lane, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SA
Received 29 Apr 2024Swainswick Vc Primary School , Innox Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DB
Received 29 Apr 20247 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 29 Apr 202413 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 29 Apr 202413 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 29 Apr 2024Stoneleigh Lodge , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TJ
Received 29 Apr 202418 Richmond Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TU
Received 29 Apr 2024Parcel 7865, Warminster Road, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Apr 2024The Old Vicarage , Hatfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BD
Received 29 Apr 2024Valley's Edge, Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QP
Received 29 Apr 202469 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RJ
Received 29 Apr 2024Garden Maisonette, 6 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 29 Apr 202411 Patch Street, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BN
Received 29 Apr 202411 Devonshire Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UB
Received 29 Apr 202416 Westgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EQ
Received 29 Apr 2024Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 29 Apr 2024Waste Recycling @ Bath, Fosseway Environment Park, Fosseway, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Apr 2024Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 29 Apr 2024Parcel 7512, Fosseway, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Apr 2024Flat 5, 41 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 29 Apr 2024Flat 5, 41 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 29 Apr 20246 Forester Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QX
Received 30 Apr 2024Mead Cottage , Church Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EF
Received 30 Apr 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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