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6,809 approved · 910 refused · 388 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
26 Broadoak Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5HB
Received 22 Jul 2022Flat 2 6 Elton Road Clevedon BS21 7RA
Received 22 Jul 2022Ye Old South Barn Oakridge Lane Winscombe North Somerset BS25 1LX
Received 25 Jul 202240 Crockerne Drive Pill North Somerset BS20 0LB
Received 25 Jul 2022Stonehouse Farm Kenn Street Kenn BS21 6TN
Received 25 Jul 20225 Coulson Drive Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 7QL
Received 24 Jul 202225 Church Street Banwell North Somerset BS29 6EA
Received 25 Jul 202214 Hatfield Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2UT
Received 25 Jul 20228 Edward Road South Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7HY
Received 25 Jul 2022Lingfield Bridge Road Leigh Woods Bristol BS8 3PE
Received 25 Jul 202210 Phoenix Way Portishead North Somerset BS20 7JJ
Received 25 Jul 2022Land At Locking Head Drove Locking North Somerset
Received 25 Jul 2022Land At Station Close Congresbury
Received 25 Jul 2022Summer House Plantation Ashton Court Long Ashton
Received 26 Jul 2022Gordano Rugby Football Club Caswell Lane Portbury BS20 7UF
Received 26 Jul 202239 Oxford Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1TN
Received 26 Jul 2022The Gables Bridge Road Leigh Woods Bristol BS8 3PB
Received 26 Jul 20223 Montpelier Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RQ
Received 8 Jul 20229 Ebdon Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 6UB
Received 22 Jul 2022The Hunting Lodge Hillview Road Loxton North Somerset BS26 2XJ
Received 27 Jun 202232 Malvern Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 4DF
Received 27 Jun 2022Yew Cottage Post Office Lane Flax Bourton North Somerset BS48 3QE
Received 26 Jul 202290 Weston Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9BP
Received 26 Jul 2022Land Off Whitling Street Regil Winford
Received 26 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.
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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.
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