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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garages To West Of Wedmore Road Car Park, Kelston Close, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Nov 202512 Cameley Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SA
Received 5 Nov 2025Land And Buildings West Of St Julians Farm, St Julian's Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Nov 2025Land West Of Old School House, Anchor Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Sept 2025Curry Mahal, 31 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HR
Received 5 Nov 20257 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 5 Nov 2025Barnbridge House , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 5 Nov 2025Barnbridge House , Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 5 Nov 2025Woodland Between Eastwood Lodge And Mod Foxhill, Pope's Walk, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Nov 2025Flat 1, 18 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JZ
Received 5 Nov 2025Monks Hill , Shaft Road, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HL
Received 5 Nov 202525 Waveney Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RU
Received 6 Nov 2025St Andrews , Old Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BW
Received 6 Nov 2025Prospect House , Harford Square, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RA
Received 6 Nov 20252 Manor Farm Barns , Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QG
Received 6 Nov 2025Outbuildings, Lower Twinhoe Farm, Lower Twinhoe, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Nov 202510 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BS
Received 6 Nov 2025Water Tank, Bath Golf Club, Golf Course Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Nov 2025Bath City Football Club , High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DB
Received 6 Nov 202549 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LH
Received 6 Nov 2025Fairfield House , Butham Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RQ
Received 6 Nov 20251 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 6 Nov 2025Crystal Palace, 10 - 11 Abbey Green, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NW
Received 6 Nov 2025The Huntsman Inn , 1 Terrace Walk, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LJ
Received 6 Nov 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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