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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
71,442 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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, 84 Norman Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3BJ
Received 1 Jul 1999Southstoke Cottage, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, BA2 7DL
Received 30 Jun 1999The Close, Inglesbatch, Bath, BA2 9DZ
Received 30 Jun 1999Coley Cottage, Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 30 Jun 1999Brooklea, Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, BS40 6BD
Received 5 Jul 199921 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4AT
Received 5 Jul 1999Former Sacred Heart School Buildings, Battle Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol,
Received 5 Jul 1999Matai, Winford Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8QQ
Received 5 Jul 1999Oliver Joseph, 1 Somer House, High Street, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2HN
Received 5 Jul 1999Springside, 25 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3ED
Received 5 Jul 199929 Warminster Road, Bath, BA2 6SA
Received 5 Jul 1999Stothert & Pitt Rfc, Bristol Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DJ
Received 6 Jul 1999Ashes Hill Farm, Kilkenny Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, BA2 9DY
Received 7 Jul 199951 Belle Vue, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BS
Received 6 Jul 199920 Wallenge Drive, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7PX
Received 6 Jul 199936 Morris Lane, Bathford, Bath, BA1 7PR
Received 7 Jul 1999Somerdale Lodge, Somerdale, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2AU
Received 7 Jul 1999Potten Baber & Murray Printing Works, Ashmead Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1SX
Received 7 Jul 199941 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3JQ
Received 7 Jul 199945 Dunster Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1WB
Received 8 Jul 1999Lower Twinhoe Cottage, Lower Twinhoe, Midford, Bath, BA2 8QY
Received 7 Jul 1999Lower Twinhoe Cottage, Lower Twinhoe, Midford, Bath, BA2 8QY
Received 7 Jul 1999Upper Twinhoe Farm, Middle Twinhoe, Midford, Bath, BA2 8QX
Received 8 Jul 1999The Tynings, St Catherine, Bath, BA1 8EY
Received 7 Jul 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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