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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
71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
187 Englishcombe Lane, Bath, BA2 2EW
Received 1 Dec 1999Fortnight Farm, Combe Hay, Bath, BA2 8RE
Received 2 Dec 199911 Widcombe Crescent, Bath, BA2 6AH
Received 25 Nov 199911 Widcombe Crescent, Bath, BA2 6AH
Received 25 Nov 19992, Park Farm Cottages, Royal Victoria Park, Bath, BA1 2LZ
Received 19 Nov 1999Chew Stoke Methodist Church, Chapel Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, BS40 8XD
Received 3 Dec 1999Glencoe, Stanton Drew, Bristol, BS39 4EJ
Received 3 Dec 199918 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4AT
Received 3 Dec 1999Kentucky Fried Chicken, 1 - 2 Cambridge House, Henry Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1JS
Received 25 Nov 1999Oldfields Hotel, 102 Wells Road, Bath, BA2 3AL
Received 2 Dec 199967A Under Knoll, Peasedown St. John, BA2 8TY
Received 2 Dec 19991 Horstmann Close, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NX
Received 30 Nov 1999Somervale School, Redfield Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 4HG
Received 6 Dec 1999Orchard House, 2A The Orchard, Stanton Drew, Bristol, BS39 4DS
Received 6 Dec 19991 Horstmann Close, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NX
Received 30 Nov 1999Fortnight Farm, Combe Hay, Bath, BA2 8RE
Received 2 Dec 19991 The Crescent, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8RH
Received 6 Dec 19992 Croft Cottages, Combe Hay, Bath, BA2 7EG
Received 6 Dec 199935 Warminster Road, Bath, BA2 6XG
Received 6 Dec 1999Church View, Church Road, Norton Malreward, Bristol
Received 6 Dec 199952 Brookside, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7YR
Received 8 Dec 199922 Lansdown Park, Bath, BA1 5TG
Received 2 Dec 19996 - 10 Westgate Buildings, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1EB
Received 2 Dec 1999Prior Park Garden Centre, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 24 Nov 1999Records 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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