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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
71,441 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Paulmont Rise, Temple Cloud, Bristol, BS39 5DZ
Received 12 Mar 1999Compton Green Farm, The Green, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4LE
Received 11 Mar 1999Brock House, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, BS40 8TX
Received 12 Mar 1999Mendip View, Priestdown Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HS
Received 15 Mar 1999Ubley Lands, Tuckers Lane, Ubley, Bristol, BS40 6PB
Received 15 Mar 199916 Woodcroft, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5XN
Received 16 Mar 199972 St Ladoc Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2EN
Received 16 Mar 1999Sharpstone Methodist Chapel, Sharpstone, Freshford, Bath, BA2 7UA
Received 16 Mar 1999Sharpstone Methodist Chapel, Sharpstone, Freshford, Bath, BA2 7UA
Received 16 Mar 1999Milford Head, Mill Hill, Wellow, Bath, BA2 8QJ
Received 15 Mar 1999Old Brew House, Prospect Place, Bathford, Bath, BA1 7TW
Received 16 Mar 1999The Old Bakery, Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3EP
Received 15 Mar 199910 Handel Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1BT
Received 15 Mar 199928 Staddlestones, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2PP
Received 16 Mar 1999Garden Cottage, Stockwood Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2AN
Received 16 Mar 1999North Barn, Cameley Road, Cameley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AH
Received 18 Mar 1999Part Plot 6659, The Sidelings, Ubley, Bristol, BS40 6PF
Received 17 Mar 199991 Welton Grove, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2TT
Received 17 Mar 1999Land Between Rose Cottage And Lakeside Close, Chapel Hill, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol,
Received 18 Mar 199955 Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, BS39 5RW
Received 19 Mar 1999Burnett House, Burnett, Bristol, BS31 2TF
Received 19 Mar 1999The Oaks, Pagans Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, BS40 8UF
Received 22 Mar 19995 The Witheys, Whitchurch, Bristol, BS14 0QB
Received 23 Mar 1999Parcel 2871, Smitham's Hill, East Harptree, Bristol,
Received 23 Mar 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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