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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
71,500 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Meadgate Farmhouse , Weekesley Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0NH
Received 24 Mar 202538 Elm Tree Avenue, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3SZ
Received 24 Mar 20252 Combeside, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LU
Received 25 Mar 20252 Lower East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AN
Received 25 Mar 202556 Eveleigh Avenue, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DH
Received 25 Mar 2025First Floor, 75 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DL
Received 25 Mar 2025176 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DA
Received 25 Mar 2025The Architect , Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 25 Mar 202578 Cameley Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SB
Received 25 Mar 20259 Augustus Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FH
Received 25 Mar 2025Basement, 8 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UG
Received 25 Mar 202574 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PT
Received 25 Mar 2025Flat 1, 4 Devonshire Buildings, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SP
Received 24 Mar 2025Braysdown Stables Ltd , Gassons, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8FE
Received 25 Mar 202536B St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PX
Received 25 Mar 2025Granville House , Tyning Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ER
Received 25 Mar 2025Greystones , 80 Ashgrove, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EG
Received 25 Mar 20252 Riverside Close, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NT
Received 25 Mar 20256 St George's Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RN
Received 26 Mar 2025Brook House , Peterside, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AB
Received 26 Mar 2025Garden Maisonette, 6 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 26 Mar 202519 Kensington Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LH
Received 26 Mar 2025Maisonette, Old Orchard Cottages, 2 Old Orchard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BE
Received 26 Mar 2025Brockway , Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RR
Received 26 Mar 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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