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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
71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 6 Jan 202540 Tyning End, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AW
Received 6 Jan 202533 Martock Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1XA
Received 6 Jan 2025222 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 6 Jan 202556 Leighton Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NG
Received 6 Jan 2025108 Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LB
Received 6 Jan 2025Rotork House , Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JQ
Received 6 Jan 2025Former Coach House To Rear Of 8 Edgar Buildings, St Andrew's Terrace, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2025Parcel 6200, Moorledge Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2025The Granary , Baggridge Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QP
Received 6 Jan 2025The Granary , Baggridge Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QP
Received 6 Jan 202575 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 6 Jan 2025Pitway Farm, Pitway Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2025Knowle Hill Farm, Knowle Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TE
Received 3 Jan 2025Cedar Park Care Centre, 27 - 28 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NG
Received 6 Jan 202518 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 202572 Haycombe Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PG
Received 7 Jan 202540 Georgian View, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LZ
Received 7 Jan 202514 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AJ
Received 7 Jan 202514 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AJ
Received 7 Jan 2025Kingswood School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 7 Jan 202524 Belle Vue, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BS
Received 7 Jan 2025Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 2 Jan 2025Playing Fields At Rear Of Lansdown Park, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Jan 2025Records 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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