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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71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cheddar House, Tunley Farm, Tunley Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DL
Received 13 May 2025128 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 13 May 2025Unregistered Barn, Moorledge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 May 2025Ground Floor, 21 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TS
Received 13 May 2025Knights Folly Farm, Woollard Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QT
Received 13 May 2025Sedbrook Farm , Litton Lane, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AY
Received 13 May 202587 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LN
Received 13 May 2025Glen Gilda , 18 St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RN
Received 13 May 2025Dalestones , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TB
Received 13 May 202518 Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HG
Received 14 May 202522 Fosseway Cottages , Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TY
Received 14 May 20258 Miles's Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QS
Received 14 May 2025Mullion Lodge, 20 St Mary's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BR
Received 14 May 20251 Livingstone Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PQ
Received 14 May 2025Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 14 May 20253 Camden Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HZ
Received 14 May 2025First Floor, 28 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 14 May 202518 Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HG
Received 14 May 20253 Palace Yard Mews, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NH
Received 14 May 2025Hillstead House , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XA
Received 14 May 2025Hillstead House , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XA
Received 14 May 202512 Cork Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BD
Received 14 May 202523 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RW
Received 14 May 202515 First Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NW
Received 15 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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