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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
71,444 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjcent To, Football Ground, Coalpit Road, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7NH
Received 6 May 1999True Balance, 264 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7RA
Received 6 May 1999Garage At Rear Of, 268 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7RA
Received 6 May 1999The Old Vicarage, Harford Square, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8RA
Received 7 May 1999Snatch Farm, Ubley, Bristol
Received 7 May 1999West Town House, Nempnett Thrubwell, Blagdon, Bristol, BS40 7XE
Received 7 May 1999The Old Police House, 80 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, BS14 0QW
Received 6 May 1999The Cott, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, BS14 0BT
Received 6 May 19992 Franklyn Terrace, Main Street, Farrington Gurney, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UD
Received 6 May 1999Hawkfield Farm, Norton Lane, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HB
Received 6 May 1999Honeysuckle Cottage, Upper Midford, Bath, BA2 7EJ
Received 7 May 1999The Dower House, The Street, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EB
Received 6 May 1999Cameley Old School House, Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, BS39 5BZ
Received 7 May 1999Corner Cottage, Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, BS40 8SP
Received 10 May 1999Solhem, Chapel Road, Clandown, Radstock, BA3 3BP
Received 10 May 1999Land To The Side Of, 1 St George's Hill, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6RN
Received 10 May 19998 Bloomfield Terrace, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8DU
Received 10 May 1999Stroud Farm, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath
Received 10 May 199927 Torridge Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1QQ
Received 10 May 1999Lynville, Redfield Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2JD
Received 11 May 1999Annex To The Rear Of, Brook Cottage, Littleton Lane, Wellow, BA2 8NP
Received 10 May 1999Street Record, Under Knoll, Peasedown St. John
Received 13 May 1999Corner Cottage, 12 Goold Close, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AF
Received 10 May 19995 Hantone Hill, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6XD
Received 10 May 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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