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.
6,865 approved · 915 refused · 391 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 South Avenue Portishead BS20 7EP
Received 14 Oct 202210 Kingston Lane Winford North Somerset BS40 8DA
Received 14 Oct 202214 Bramley Drive Backwell BS48 3HN
Received 14 Oct 2022Land At Well Close Winscombe
Received 14 Oct 202284 Church Road Winscombe BS25 1BP
Received 14 Oct 2022Land To North West Of Parsonage Lane Winford
Received 14 Oct 202260 Rosemount Road Flax Bourton BS48 1UQ
Received 14 Oct 2022Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 15 Oct 202216 Springfield Road Portishead BS20 6LH
Received 15 Oct 20226 Shetland Way Nailsea BS48 2UW
Received 17 Oct 202235 Church Lane Backwell North Somerset BS48 3PH
Received 17 Oct 202224 Elmsleigh Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JN
Received 17 Oct 202283 Bluebell Road Wick St Lawrence BS22 9BX
Received 17 Oct 202246 Yanley Lane Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LR
Received 16 Oct 20221 Charterhouse Close Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4PU
Received 16 Oct 20225 Ellenborough Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XL
Received 17 Oct 20225 Ellenborough Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XL
Received 17 Oct 2022Ozmandene 15 Banwell Road Hutton BS24 9TZ
Received 17 Oct 2022Sequoia House Rownham Hill Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PU
Received 17 Oct 2022Hinkley Point B Power Station Somerset
Received 12 Oct 2022Car Park At Cadbury Garden Centre Smallway Congresbury BS49 5AA
Received 17 Oct 20221 Boundary House Binhay Road Yatton North Somerset BS49 4HA
Received 17 Oct 2022Honeytree Day Nursery Weston General Hospital Grange Road Uphill North Somerset BS23 4TQ
Received 17 Oct 2022Land Between 7 And 9 Church Road Abbots Leigh
Received 18 Oct 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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