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.
6,874 approved · 915 refused · 392 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal Hotel Pier Road Portishead BS20 7HG
Received 20 Oct 202226 Southside Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2QX
Received 13 Sept 202241 Weston Road Long Ashton BS41 9AA
Received 21 Oct 20221 South View Cottages Maysgreen Lane Hewish BS24 6RW
Received 21 Oct 202214 The Drive Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2SR
Received 21 Oct 202217 Cross Lanes Pill BS20 0JQ
Received 21 Oct 202227 Hill Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7NE
Received 21 Oct 202230 Castle Hill Banwell North Somerset BS29 6NY
Received 12 Sept 2022Gransden Cottage 48 Church Road Winscombe North Somerset BS25 1BH
Received 12 Sept 202234 Knightstone Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2BD
Received 21 Sept 202279 Church Road Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 9DP
Received 21 Sept 202215 Montpelier Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RJ
Received 21 Sept 20224 Montpelier Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RG
Received 21 Sept 202280 Balmoral Way Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 9DJ
Received 21 Oct 2022174 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LT
Received 21 Oct 202221 - 23 Trewartha Park Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RR
Received 21 Oct 2022Watercress Farm Upton Lane Dundry North Somerset BS41 8NS
Received 21 Oct 202249 Brock End Portishead North Somerset BS20 8LS
Received 24 Oct 2022144 Farleigh Road Backwell North Somerset BS48 3PN
Received 21 Oct 202242 Weston Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9HH
Received 24 Oct 202215 Lipgate Place Clevedon Road Portishead BS20 6QN
Received 24 Oct 202212 Sunnymede Road Nailsea BS48 2NG
Received 24 Oct 2022Sutherland Cars Showroom Chew Road Winford North Somerset BS40 8HB
Received 24 Oct 2022Langford Nursery The Corner House Bristol Road Churchill BS40 5JE
Received 21 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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