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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
71,460 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
44 Stonehouse Lane, Bath, BA2 5DW
Received 11 Sept 1996Violet Bank Farm, Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AY
Received 23 Sept 19961 Calton Road, Bath, BA2 4PP
Received 19 Sept 199645 Stonehouse Lane, Bath, BA2 5DW
Received 11 Sept 19963 Lansdown Park, Bath, BA1 5TG
Received 25 Sept 199620 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BA
Received 25 Oct 1996Tony & Guy 2 New Bond Street Buildings, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BL
Received 26 Sept 1996Tony & Guy 2 New Bond Street Buildings, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BL
Received 26 Sept 1996Quarry Farm House, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 6EE
Received 25 Sept 199620 Gay Street, Bath, BA1 2DP
Received 19 Sept 19961A Riverside Business Park, Riverside Road, Bath, BA2 3DW
Received 25 Sept 199620 Gay Street, Bath, BA1 2DP
Received 19 Sept 199616 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3NP
Received 24 Sept 1996Angel Place, 13 Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BA
Received 24 Sept 19965-6 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, BA1 5LX
Received 18 Oct 19967 Portland Place, Bath, BA1 2RU
Received 25 Sept 1996New Barn Farm, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BU
Received 23 Jul 199660 Elm Road, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7QX
Received 24 Jul 19963 Westfield Close, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2HQ
Received 24 Jul 1996Parcel 0071, Limekiln Lane, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AP
Received 24 Jul 1996Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St. Loe, Bath, BA2 9BW
Received 24 Jul 1996Stockwood Vale Golf Club, Stockwood Lane, Bristol, BS31 2ER
Received 24 Jul 1996Parsons Hill, Crock Barton, Rectory Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, BS40 6JP
Received 25 Jul 1996Old Pit Cottage, West Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2WL
Received 25 Jul 1996Records 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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