Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,809 approved · 910 refused · 388 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
7 Linden Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7SL
Received 14 Jul 2022Yew Tree Farm Church Road Dundry North Somerset BS41 8LH
Received 18 Jul 2022Colliters Brook Farm Bridgwater Road Dundry North Somerset BS41 8JS
Received 18 Jul 20225 Regent Street Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1SE
Received 18 Jul 2022Pavement Outside 36 Mendip Road Junction Of Mendip Road And Brendon Road Portishead
Received 12 Jul 2022Pavement Outside 22 Mendip Road Portishead
Received 12 Jul 2022Mythering End 4 Yanleigh Estate Yanley Lane Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LP
Received 18 Jul 2022Nightingales North Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PL
Received 19 Jul 2022Capenor Cottage 43 St Marys Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 6QS
Received 19 Jul 202211 Sand Farm Lane Kewstoke North Somerset BS22 9UF
Received 19 Jul 20223 Mendip Road Locking North Somerset BS24 7AE
Received 19 Jul 202224 Nithsdale Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 4JR
Received 19 Jul 2022Land And Stable Block To The East Of Woodbury Bridgwater Road Barrow Gurney BS48 3SJ
Received 19 Jul 20222 St Mary's Road Leigh Woods Bristol BS8 3PY
Received 19 Jul 202216 Rodmoor Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 7JE
Received 19 Jul 202244 South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2HE
Received 19 Jul 202244 South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2HE
Received 19 Jul 202219 Dennyview Road Abbots Leigh North Somerset BS8 3RD
Received 19 Jul 2022HELIOS HOUSE Brockley Lane Brockley North Somerset BS48 4AH
Received 19 Jul 202218 Ellenborough Crescent Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1XL
Received 20 Jul 202218 Ellenborough Crescent Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1XL
Received 20 Jul 2022Little Vaust Cooks Lane Banwell North Somerset BS29 6DS
Received 20 Jul 2022Banwell Bypass Land To North And East Of Banwell Including Mitigation Highway Land In Sandford, Winscombe And Churchill
Received 18 Jul 202211 Eastfield Gardens Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2TJ
Received 20 Jul 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for North 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.
Check collection coverage