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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
71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Cottage, Shockerwick Farm Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LL
Received 30 Oct 19973 Bromley Villas, Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, BS39 4DE
Received 3 Nov 199742 Fir Tree Avenue, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7SQ
Received 3 Nov 1997Brooklyn, Wallace, East Harptree, Bristol, BS40 6BU
Received 3 Nov 1997The Old Cafe (between Methodist Church & Garage), 61A Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath
Received 31 Oct 1997Stowey House Farm, Stowey, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5TQ
Received 3 Nov 1997Saltford Sports Club, Wedmore Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS39 3BY
Received 17 Oct 1997An Der Ecke, Single Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, BA2 8LZ
Received 4 Nov 1997End Farm, St Catherine Lane, St. Catherine, Bath, BA1 8HA
Received 4 Nov 1997Saltford Sports Club, Wedmore Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS39 3BY
Received 17 Oct 1997Ingledene, Priston Road, Priston, BA2 9EA
Received 6 Nov 19978A Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7PP
Received 6 Nov 199736 Temple Street, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1EH
Received 6 Nov 1997Compton Martin Village Hall, The Street, Compton Martin, BS40 6JW
Received 6 Nov 1997Three Gables, Church Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UP
Received 7 Nov 1997Hartwell House, Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, BS39 5TA
Received 7 Nov 1997Sutton Farm, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UR
Received 7 Nov 199717 Wellsway, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1HS
Received 7 Nov 19971 Homeleaze, Workshop Lane, Newton St. Loe, Bath, BA2 9DH
Received 7 Nov 19976 Carlton Close, Clutton, Bristol, BS39 5SS
Received 7 Nov 1997The Firs, Chelwood, Bristol, BS39 4NW
Received 7 Nov 1997Mico Bank, Eckweek Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8PR
Received 7 Nov 1997Kwok Sang Take Away, 44A Temple Street, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1EH
Received 10 Nov 1997Sandygates, Northstoke, Bath, BA1 9AS
Received 10 Nov 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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