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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.
6,858 approved · 915 refused · 391 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
366 Nore Road Portishead BS20 8EY
Received 20 Sept 2022Stowell Concrete Ltd Arnolds Way Yatton BS49 4QN
Received 20 Sept 20222 The Grange Flax Bourton North Somerset BS48 3QH
Received 21 Sept 2022Land At The Uplands Nailsea North Somerset
Received 21 Sept 2022Land Adjacent To 33 Station Road St Georges Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset
Received 21 Sept 202218 Halliwell Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8JP
Received 21 Sept 20225 Trinder Road Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0LX
Received 21 Sept 20221 Bramley Close Sandford BS25 5NY
Received 21 Sept 20227 Clark Close Wraxall Long Ashton BS48 1JL
Received 21 Sept 202230 Castle Road Clevedon BS21 7DE
Received 21 Sept 2022Barn 1, Crossway Farm Kennmoor Road Yatton BS21 6TZ
Received 21 Sept 2022Land To Rear Of 14-19 Churchill Road Churchill Road Business Centre Weston-super-Mare BS23 3HD
Received 21 Sept 202262 Diamond Batch Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 7NB
Received 22 Sept 2022Land To The Rear Of 44-46 Upper Bristol Road Weston-Super-Mare
Received 22 Sept 2022Cowshed Glen Farm Sandy Lane Lower Failand
Received 22 Sept 202228 High Street Banwell BS29 6AE
Received 22 Sept 2022Lower Ground Floor Flats 7 & 8 19 Lower Church Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AQ
Received 22 Sept 2022Lower Ground Floor Flats 7 & 8 19 Lower Church Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2AQ
Received 22 Sept 2022Freeway Trust Leigh Court Activity Centre Pill Road Abbots Leigh North Somerset
Received 22 Sept 2022311 Nore Road Portishead BS20 8EN
Received 23 Sept 202211 Canberra Crescent Locking North Somerset BS24 7DA
Received 22 Sept 2022The Hawthorns Lodge Lane Wraxall BS48 2BB
Received 23 Sept 202231 Weston Road Failand BS8 3UR
Received 23 Sept 2022Mendip Outdoor Pursuits Lyncombe Drive Sandford BS25 5PQ
Received 23 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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