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.
6,830 approved · 912 refused · 390 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
13 Hardwick Road Pill BS20 0DG
Received 25 Aug 2022Channel Farm Oakridge Lane Winscombe BS25 1NJ
Received 25 Aug 2022Wayside Main Road Flax Bourton North Somerset BS48 3QQ
Received 26 Aug 2022Rose Cottage Street End Lane Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7TW
Received 26 Aug 2022Pegasus Court 83 Silver Street Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2BP
Received 26 Aug 20229 Bucklands View Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4TZ
Received 26 Aug 2022206 High Street Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 6JE
Received 26 Aug 2022Winston Hotel Bristol Road Churchill North Somerset BS25 5NL
Received 26 Aug 2022Chaplains House Tyntesfield Wraxall North Somerset BS48 1NX
Received 30 Aug 2022Orchard House The Batch Rickford Bristol BS40 7AG
Received 30 Aug 202257 Brock End Portishead North Somerset BS20 8LS
Received 30 Aug 2022172 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3LU
Received 25 Aug 2022Buildings At Rolstone Farm, West Rolstone Court West Rolstone Road Hewish
Received 30 Aug 2022Norton Farm Lower Norton Lane Kewstoke BS22 9YR
Received 30 Aug 202266 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LE
Received 30 Aug 20227 The Precinct High Street Portishead North Somerset BS20 6AH
Received 30 Aug 2022Land South West Of Court Farm Chew Road Winford North Somerset
Received 30 Aug 2022Former Weston Airfield Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 30 Aug 2022Land Adjoining Coombe Farm Sandford Road Winscombe
Received 26 Aug 202226 Rippleside Portishead BS20 6NB
Received 30 Aug 2022Wapsell Cottage Upper Strode Winford Bristol BS40 8BG
Received 31 Aug 2022Bleadon Quarry Bridge Road Bleadon BS24 0AU
Received 30 Aug 202219 Robin Lane Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7ES
Received 31 Aug 2022The Red Lodge Abbots Leigh Road Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PX
Received 31 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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