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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71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 30 Apr 2025Land And Buildings West Of St Julians Farm, St Julian's Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Apr 20257 Duke Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AG
Received 30 Apr 2025Parcel 8364, Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 May 2025Land West Of Providence Bungalow, Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 May 202522 Stirtingale Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NQ
Received 1 May 2025Belushi Bar, St Christopher's Inn, 9 Green Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JY
Received 1 May 2025St Mary's Church , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TQ
Received 1 May 2025Audley House , Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 1 May 202522 Kensington Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LH
Received 1 May 202515 - 17 High Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AH
Received 1 May 2025Norland College, 39 - 41 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 1 May 2025Elm Tree Filling Station , Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3UR
Received 1 May 2025Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 29 Apr 2025Tythe Barn , Gibbet Lane, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BX
Received 1 May 202532 Brooklyn Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6TE
Received 1 May 2025Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 1 May 2025Pound Cottage , Southstoke Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DN
Received 1 May 2025Hayesfield , Pioneer Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QX
Received 1 May 202530 Shaws Way, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QQ
Received 1 May 202520 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UJ
Received 1 May 20253 Stanley Villas , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 1 May 20253 Stanley Villas , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 1 May 20254 The Mead, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1FF
Received 1 May 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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