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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
71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Darcy Gardens, Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Aug 2025Devon Cottage , North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AS
Received 14 Aug 2025Westhill House , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 14 Aug 2025Landscaped Verge West Of Valley View Close, Valley View Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Aug 202515 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JP
Received 15 Aug 202521 Englishcombe Way, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EU
Received 15 Aug 20253 Staple Grove, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2HB
Received 15 Aug 2025Wick Farm , Rankers Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4NU
Received 15 Aug 2025Circus Orthodontic Surgery, 20 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EU
Received 15 Aug 202526 Albany Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BP
Received 15 Aug 202539 Milton Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QZ
Received 15 Aug 202516 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 15 Aug 20254 St Christopher's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RG
Received 15 Aug 2025Pound Cottage , Queen Square, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EL
Received 15 Aug 2025Flat At, The Pelican Inn, 10 South Parade, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SL
Received 18 Aug 2025Hillside Cottage , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 18 Aug 2025The Grange Coach House , Chew Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RY
Received 18 Aug 202560 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PT
Received 18 Aug 2025Yew Tree Cottage , Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UW
Received 18 Aug 202513 Brookleaze Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RA
Received 18 Aug 202539 Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QD
Received 18 Aug 2025549 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JG
Received 18 Aug 2025Site Of Former Unigate Dairies Depot, Charlton Buildings, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 Aug 2025Tythe Barn , Gibbet Lane, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BX
Received 18 Aug 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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