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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
71,483 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Chantry Mead Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DA
Received 25 Mar 202614 Cornishmen's Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DU
Received 25 Mar 2026Mount Beacon House , Richmond Hill, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QR
Received 25 Mar 2026Parcel 0045 North, Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 2026Cleveland Court , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JY
Received 26 Mar 2026Argyle House, Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Mar 2026Cairn Ryan , 38 Paulmont Rise, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5DZ
Received 26 Mar 2026Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 26 Mar 202692 Kelston View, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NR
Received 26 Mar 2026Elmhurst , Blind Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UA
Received 26 Mar 2026Chanctonbury , Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 26 Mar 2026143 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JN
Received 25 Mar 2026Flat 3, 4 Edward Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DU
Received 26 Mar 2026Radstock Methodist Church , The Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PL
Received 26 Mar 2026Parcel 4234, Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Mar 2026Trevone , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JL
Received 26 Mar 2026St Alphege's Church, Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NR
Received 25 Mar 2026St Malo , First Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NW
Received 26 Mar 202616 Thornbank Place, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HH
Received 26 Mar 202625 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LP
Received 26 Mar 202627 Pinewood Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2RQ
Received 26 Mar 202643 Beaufort Avenue, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TG
Received 26 Mar 202624 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 27 Mar 202656 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NH
Received 27 Mar 2026Records 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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