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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Lansdown Place East, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ET
Received 10 Dec 2025Little Orchard , 2 Byron Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RH
Received 11 Dec 2025Sycamore Farm, Smitham's Hill, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BZ
Received 11 Dec 202511 Pulteney Avenue, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HH
Received 11 Dec 2025Poultry Houses, Langfords Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Dec 2025Chivers House, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 11 Dec 2025Bridge Place Farm, Camerton Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PS
Received 9 Dec 2025Quarry Farmhouse , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EE
Received 11 Dec 2025Hayeswood Farm, Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0FQ
Received 11 Dec 202559 Hantone Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XD
Received 11 Dec 2025Manor House , Upper Road, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AN
Received 11 Dec 20257 Pines Way, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3EZ
Received 11 Dec 20252 Eden Park Drive, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JH
Received 11 Dec 2025St Julian's Primary School , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 11 Dec 2025Lower Clutton Hill Farm, Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PH
Received 12 Dec 2025Montarosa , Mendip Villas, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JU
Received 12 Dec 2025Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 12 Dec 2025Former Telephone Call Box, Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Dec 2025Agricultural Buildings North Of Manor Farm, Southstoke Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Dec 2025Hedgerows , Parkway Lane, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0NJ
Received 12 Dec 2025Livingstone Lodge , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EF
Received 12 Dec 202512 Burlington Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SA
Received 15 Dec 202517 Foxcombe Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3ED
Received 15 Dec 20254 Pulteney Grove, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HQ
Received 15 Dec 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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