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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
71,496 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Homeground , Gibbet Lane, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BX
Received 15 Apr 202571 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 15 Apr 2025Vision Express, 54 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1TG
Received 15 Apr 202529 Worcester Park, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QU
Received 15 Apr 20253 The Batch , Tadwick Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BX
Received 15 Apr 2025Bridgnorth House , 2 Crescent Gardens, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NA
Received 15 Apr 2025Percy Villa , Percy Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AS
Received 15 Apr 202523 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PZ
Received 15 Apr 2025Yew Tree Cottage , 34 The Street, Marksbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HP
Received 16 Apr 2025Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BT
Received 16 Apr 202570 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NE
Received 16 Apr 2025Cranwell House , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UZ
Received 16 Apr 202529 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 16 Apr 2025Sweet Pea Floral Design, 109 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DA
Received 16 Apr 2025Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 16 Apr 2025The Corner House, 2 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PH
Received 16 Apr 2025The Corner House, 2 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PH
Received 16 Apr 2025Falklands , 78 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QW
Received 16 Apr 2025Monkton Wyld , Court Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RY
Received 16 Apr 2025Treow Barn , Compton Martin Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EQ
Received 16 Apr 2025October House , 16 School Place, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BQ
Received 16 Apr 20251 Rose Cottages , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EQ
Received 16 Apr 20251 Hanover Place , London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PJ
Received 16 Apr 20254 Downside Close, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XF
Received 16 Apr 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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