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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
71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Maisonette, 38 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BZ
Received 22 Nov 2024Bathwick St Marys C Of E Primary School , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NN
Received 22 Nov 20246 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Nov 2024The Annexe, Batch Farm, Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Nov 2024Avon Accident Auto Repair Garage , Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QL
Received 25 Nov 202416 Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LQ
Received 25 Nov 2024Larkspur Rise House , 22 Innox Grove, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DX
Received 25 Nov 20249 Calton Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PP
Received 25 Nov 2024Willow Farm Mobile Home, Flatts Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HJ
Received 25 Nov 2024Lyncombe Court , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LR
Received 25 Nov 2024Lyncombe Court , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LR
Received 25 Nov 2024Sherford House , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SU
Received 25 Nov 20247 Chestnut Walk, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3BG
Received 25 Nov 2024Scout And Guide Huts, Scouts Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Nov 20243 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 25 Nov 2024Francis Hotel, 6 - 11 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HH
Received 25 Nov 2024Wansdyke Business Centre, Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Nov 2024Holiday Inn Express Hotel , Brougham Hayes, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QU
Received 25 Nov 20247 Partis Way, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QG
Received 25 Nov 2024Paulton House , Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SX
Received 25 Nov 2024Manor House East , Manor Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DA
Received 25 Nov 2024Spring House, Paulto' Hill, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PJ
Received 25 Nov 2024Somerset House, Charlcombe Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TP
Received 25 Nov 20248 Bartlett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QZ
Received 25 Nov 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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