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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.
6,841 approved · 915 refused · 391 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 Clevedon Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1DF
Received 7 Sept 2022Land At Uncombe Close Backwell North Somerset
Received 7 Sept 20221-2 Red Cottages Church Road Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PG
Received 7 Sept 202220 Kent Avenue West Wick North Somerset BS24 7FH
Received 7 Sept 2022Hunters Hollow Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SD
Received 7 Sept 2022Tardis Bath Road Blagdon BS40 7TH
Received 7 Sept 2022Ground Floor Unit 10 Middle Bridge Business Park Bristol Road Portishead BS20 6PN
Received 7 Sept 2022Oxhouse Farm Claverham Drove Lower Claverham
Received 8 Sept 202213 Moorland Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4HW
Received 8 Sept 202219 White Lodge Park Portishead North Somerset BS20 7HH
Received 7 Sept 202232 Waterloo Street Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1LW
Received 8 Sept 202232 Waterloo Street Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1LW
Received 8 Sept 2022Charlton Farm Charlton Drive Wraxall North Somerset BS48 1PE
Received 8 Sept 20229 - 10 Claremont Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 2ED
Received 8 Sept 20229 - 10 Claremont Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 2ED
Received 8 Sept 202211-12 Claremont Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 2ED
Received 8 Sept 2022Land At Arnolds Way Yatton North Somerset
Received 6 Sept 2022Flat 41 Fedden Village Nore Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8DN
Received 8 Sept 2022Langford House Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5DU
Received 8 Sept 2022Land Adjacent To Garden Of Rest Stock Way North Nailsea
Received 8 Sept 202225 Brook Close Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9NG
Received 9 Sept 202219 Butts Batch Wrington North Somerset BS40 5LN
Received 8 Sept 2022Butts Orchard Butts Batch Wrington North Somerset BS40 5LN
Received 8 Sept 2022Woodlands Wrington Hill Wrington BS40 5PL
Received 9 Sept 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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