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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
71,458 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Heatherfields, Church Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TY
Received 15 Oct 1996Stockwood Vale Golf Club, Stockwood Lane, Bristol, BS31 2ER
Received 15 Oct 1996High Acres, Tunley, Bath, BA2 0DR
Received 15 Oct 1996Charmydown House, Gloucester Road, Swainswick, Bath, BA1 8AD
Received 22 Oct 19967 The Batch, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3EN
Received 22 Oct 199644 Riverside Walk, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2PD
Received 22 Oct 1996483 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3BA
Received 21 Oct 19968 Newmans Lane, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0JA
Received 17 Oct 19967 Southfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3NU
Received 18 Oct 1996Plot 2, Sutton Farm, Bishop Sutton, Bristol
Received 21 Oct 1996Chew Court, Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8RE
Received 22 Oct 1996Manor Farm, Burnett, Bristol, BS31 2TF
Received 22 Oct 199611 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock
Received 16 Oct 1996Manor Farm Barn, Farm Lane, Wellow, BA2 8QU
Received 22 Oct 1996Cheshire Home, Greenhill House, South Road, Timsbury, BA2 0ES
Received 16 Oct 1996Manor Farm Barn, Farm Lane, Wellow, BA2 8QU
Received 22 Oct 1996Wellington Cottage (Gallery), Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS18 8SP
Received 16 Oct 1996130-133 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock
Received 16 Oct 1996R S C Precision Engineering, Mill Road, Radstock, BA3 5TX
Received 21 Oct 1996King Edwards School Playing Field, Dark Lane, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6SZ
Received 21 Oct 19967 Stowborough Cottages, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8EY
Received 24 Oct 199638 High Street, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DL
Received 23 Oct 1996Belle Vue, Church Hill, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0LG
Received 23 Oct 1996Home Farm, Water Street, East Harptree, Bristol, BS40 6AD
Received 23 Oct 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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