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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6,858 approved · 915 refused · 391 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 - 34 Birnbeck Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2BX
Received 23 Sept 202210 The Pippins Portishead North Somerset BS20 7NA
Received 23 Sept 202291 - 93 Nore Road Portishead BS20 6JZ
Received 23 Sept 2022Land To West Of The Orchard Lower Claverham Road Claverham
Received 23 Sept 2022Land Opposite 1 Trendlewood Way Nailsea North Somerset
Received 23 Sept 2022Ashcombe Primary Earlham Grove Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3JW
Received 23 Sept 2022Coombe Cottage Coombe Lane Lower Failand BS8 3SU
Received 26 Sept 2022Boundary Wall Of Ashton Court Estate Clarken Coombe Long Ashton
Received 26 Sept 20221 Friary Close Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7QA
Received 26 Sept 202211 Hill Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7NE
Received 26 Sept 2022South Hill Farm Bridgwater Road Bleadon BS24 0BD
Received 23 Sept 2022Church Farm 103 Main Road Cleeve North Somerset BS49 4PN
Received 26 Sept 202223 Queens Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2LH
Received 26 Sept 2022Land To The West Of Engine Lane Nailsea
Received 26 Sept 2022Wren Cottage 14 Wrington Lane Congresbury BS49 5BQ
Received 26 Sept 202222 - 24 High Street Winford BS40 8EJ
Received 26 Sept 202216 The Cottages Station Road Wrington North Somerset BS40 5LH
Received 26 Sept 202215 Gerard Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RE
Received 26 Sept 20223 Dovetail Drive Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3JB
Received 26 Sept 202216 Bay Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7BT
Received 26 Sept 202218 Rayens Cross Road Long Ashton BS41 9DZ
Received 26 Sept 202264 Canberra Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4PW
Received 27 Sept 202250 Church Road Worle Weston-Super-Mare BS22 9DE
Received 27 Sept 20223 The Hamlet Nailsea North Somerset BS48 1BY
Received 27 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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