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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.
6,865 approved · 915 refused · 392 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Moor Road Yatton
Received 17 Oct 2022Land At Collum Farm Collum Lane Kewstoke BS22 9YX
Received 17 Oct 2022Unit 2, 3 And 4 Old Mill Road Portishead BS20 7BX
Received 17 Oct 2022129 Worlebury Hill Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 9TQ
Received 18 Oct 2022Land At The Junction Of Bleadon Hill And Bridgwater Road Bridgwater Road Uphill North Somerset
Received 18 Oct 2022Land At Former Bat House Ridings Wood Way Barrow Gurney
Received 18 Oct 202216 Brighton Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3QG
Received 19 Oct 20222 Pitman Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1YN
Received 19 Oct 20224 Parsonage Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LL
Received 19 Oct 2022Land And Building Adjacent To The East Of Brinsea Batch Congresbury
Received 19 Oct 202210 Glebe Road Clevedon BS21 6QD
Received 19 Oct 2022Jellalabad Ladye Bay Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7BU
Received 19 Oct 2022The White House Potters Hill Felton North Somerset BS40 9XD
Received 19 Oct 2022Mill Inn Blagdon Lane Butcombe North Somerset BS40 7UR
Received 19 Oct 2022Little Iwood 28 Wrington Road Congresbury BS49 5AR
Received 19 Oct 2022The Radio Wing Mccrae Road Locking BS24 7LZ
Received 19 Oct 202222 Elborough Gardens Elborough Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 8PL
Received 19 Oct 202293 Hillside Road Portishead BS20 8LJ
Received 20 Oct 20221 Rodney Road Backwell BS48 3HB
Received 20 Oct 20226 - 8 Colliers Walk Nailsea BS48 1RH
Received 20 Oct 20228 Grace Close Yatton BS49 4DL
Received 20 Oct 2022Glenny Wood Wood Lane Clapton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS20 7RQ
Received 20 Oct 2022Mirage 21 Harbour Road Portishead BS20 7AJ
Received 20 Oct 2022Manor Farm 84 West Town Road Backwell BS48 3BE
Received 20 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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