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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.
6,874 approved · 915 refused · 392 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 To The North Of Western Fields Whitley Road Banwell BS29 6NA
Received 24 Oct 2022Bristol Hotel Chapel Hill Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7NL
Received 24 Oct 2022Land To North Of Cherry Orchard Farm Caswell Lane Clapton-in-Gordano
Received 24 Oct 2022The Coach House 2 Hilliers Lane Churchill BS25 5NA
Received 24 Oct 2022Hill Cottage Rhodyate Hill Bristol BS49 5AQ
Received 24 Oct 20224 East Clevedon Triangle Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6BQ
Received 25 Oct 2022129 Worlebury Hill Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9TQ
Received 25 Oct 2022Ivy Lodge Front Street Churchill North Somerset BS25 5NB
Received 25 Oct 20224 St Andrews Close Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2UN
Received 25 Oct 20223 Manor Cottages Clevedon Road Walton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS21 7AN
Received 25 Oct 202226 Victoria Square Portishead North Somerset BS20 6AQ
Received 25 Oct 2022Avon Plants Weston Road Puxton Congresbury BS24 6SQ
Received 25 Oct 202226 Southside Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2QX
Received 13 Sept 2022Land West Of Locking Parklands (former Moss Land) Parklands Village Locking
Received 24 Oct 202216 The Old Water Gardens Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7SN
Received 6 Oct 202225 Valley Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8JU
Received 25 Oct 2022Ash Tree Holiday Home Park Lower Norton Lane Kewstoke BS22 9YR
Received 25 Oct 20223 Russell Road Clevedon BS21 7RS
Received 25 Oct 202211 Yeoward Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 5AT
Received 25 Oct 2022Phase 11 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 25 Oct 2022Carlton Centre Carlton Street Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1UA
Received 25 Oct 2022The Quest Glen Avenue Abbots Leigh BS8 3SD
Received 26 Oct 2022191 Clevedon Road Tickenham BS21 6RT
Received 26 Oct 202233 Worlebury Park Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9SA
Received 25 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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