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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
71,451 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Medway Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1RZ
Received 28 Feb 1997Venture Tyres And Exhausts, Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BZ
Received 3 Mar 1997Westfield Farm, Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8QW
Received 3 Mar 199723 Queens Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2NQ
Received 3 Mar 199745 Sherwood Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1DA
Received 3 Mar 199746 Riverside Walk, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2PD
Received 3 Mar 1997Elm Park House, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2SS
Received 3 Mar 1997Street Record, Westview, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 3 Mar 1997Parcel 2221, Hayeswood Road, Farmborough, Bath,
Received 3 Mar 199739 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3JQ
Received 4 Mar 19974 Red Hill, Camerton, BA2 0NY
Received 4 Mar 1997Broom Hill Farm, Goosard Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, BS39 6JT
Received 3 Mar 1997Hayeswood Farm, Timsbury Industrial Estate, Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0HQ
Received 4 Mar 1997Blacknest Farm, Hinton Blewett, Temple Cloud, Bristol, BS39 5AL
Received 4 Mar 1997Venture Tyres And Exhausts, Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BZ
Received 3 Mar 1997Paulton Post Office, Church Street, Paulton, BS39 7LG
Received 5 Mar 1997Flower & Hayes Ltd, Old Mills House, Old Mills Industrial Estate, Paulton, BS39 7SU
Received 5 Mar 1997The Paddocks, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, BS40 8TZ
Received 5 Mar 1997The Old Vicarage, Stowey, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5TH
Received 3 Mar 1997Laurelbank House, Eckweek Lane, Peasedown St. John, BA2 8PH
Received 5 Mar 1997Longreach, 321 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3TJ
Received 5 Mar 199722 St Mary's Rise, Writhlington, Radstock, BA3 3PD
Received 6 Mar 19977 Lower Northend, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7EZ
Received 6 Mar 1997Willow Farm House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, BA2 8PU
Received 6 Mar 1997Records 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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