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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,830 approved · 912 refused · 390 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Forsythia Cottage Grib Lane Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7SA
Received 12 Aug 2022Youngwood House Farm Youngwood Lane Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4NR
Received 12 Aug 2022Villa Rosa Shrubbery Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2JB
Received 8 Aug 2022Walby Cottage South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2HD
Received 13 Aug 202233 Combe Avenue Portishead BS20 6JS
Received 15 Aug 202297 West Town Road Backwell North Somerset BS48 3BH
Received 13 Aug 2022The Old Posts Rickford Lane Burrington BS40 7AA
Received 13 Aug 20228 - 9 Manilla Crescent Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2BS
Received 15 Aug 2022Flat 2 Glencliffe Mansions 12 Atlantic Road South Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2DE
Received 14 Aug 2022Stable Cottage Stock Lane Langford BS40 5EX
Received 15 Aug 2022Flat 1 9 Queens Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2LF
Received 14 Aug 2022Flat 2 33 South Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2HD
Received 15 Aug 2022Stonewood House Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5HU
Received 8 Aug 2022Ashcombe Primary Earlham Grove Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3JW
Received 28 Jul 2022Pavemnet Opposite 27 Clevedon Road Portishead BS20 6TF
Received 12 Aug 2022Woodlands Farm Mearcombe Lane Bleadon North Somerset BS24 0NZ
Received 15 Aug 2022Beehive Cottage Churchill Green Churchill North Somerset BS25 5QJ
Received 15 Aug 2022Jacobs Lodge 2B Sixty Acres Close Failand BS8 3UH
Received 15 Aug 2022Phase 4 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 15 Aug 2022Stoneswood Farm Cleeve Hill Road Cleeve North Somerset BS40 5PP
Received 9 Aug 2022Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 15 Aug 2022Westholme West Street Banwell BS29 6DE
Received 15 Aug 2022Alveare Bridgwater Road Dundry North Somerset BS41 8JP
Received 15 Aug 2022Land Off Whitling Street Regil Winford
Received 15 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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