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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,818 approved · 911 refused · 389 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 2 Aug 2022St Nicholas Church Pre-school St Nicholas Church Hall Uphill Road South Uphill North Somerset BS23 4UH
Received 12 Jul 2022Applegarth High Street Wrington BS40 5QD
Received 2 Aug 2022Applegarth High Street Wrington BS40 5QD
Received 2 Aug 202246 The Hedges St Georges Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS22 7BU
Received 2 Aug 20222 The Crescent Backwell North Somerset BS48 3NL
Received 3 Aug 202211 Newhaven Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8LH
Received 3 Aug 202232 Treefield Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6JB
Received 3 Aug 2022Midgell Farmhouse Midgell Farm Chelvey Road Chelvey Bristol BS48 4AA
Received 3 Aug 20221 Orchard Close Banwell North Somerset BS29 6DF
Received 3 Aug 2022Weston-super-Mare Railway Station Station Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1XY
Received 3 Aug 202272 Southfield Road Nailsea North Somerset BS48 1SE
Received 3 Aug 2022Barton Camp The Barton Barton Winscombe BS25 1DY
Received 3 Aug 202218 Rickford Road Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4PY
Received 3 Aug 2022Hinkley Point C Connection Project, Between Bridgwater In Somerset And Seabank Substation, North Of Avonmouth.
Received 3 Aug 202237 Clevedon Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 6TF
Received 3 Aug 2022Old Jewsons Site Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3YS
Received 3 Aug 20229 Moor Lane Hutton BS24 9QJ
Received 3 Aug 202214 Heywood Road Pill North Somerset BS20 0ED
Received 4 Aug 202210 Westway Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2NA
Received 4 Aug 2022Outbuilding To The Rear Of 2-4 Upper Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Aug 2022Lawrence Court Lawrence Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6TU
Received 3 Aug 2022Land At The Junction Of Jubilee Way And The Avenue St Georges Weston-super-Mare BS22 7RA
Received 3 Aug 202225 Beechwood Road Easton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS20 0NA
Received 4 Aug 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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