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.
6,882 approved · 916 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal Hotel 56 Pier Road Portishead BS20 7HG
Received 9 Nov 2022Barn And Land At Elwell Lane Winford BS40 8AH
Received 8 Nov 202254 Walton Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6AG
Received 8 Nov 2022Pump House Land Off Kingston Lane Winford
Received 8 Nov 202216 Old Church Road Uphill North Somerset BS23 4UH
Received 8 Nov 20221 Wainwright Close Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 7QS
Received 10 Nov 2022Ashcombe Primary School Earlham Grove Weston-super-Mare BS23 3JW
Received 10 Nov 2022Brockley Cottage Chelvey Batch Brockley North Somerset BS48 3AP
Received 11 Nov 2022Brockley Cottage Chelvey Batch Brockley North Somerset BS48 3AP
Received 11 Nov 2022Oakleigh Bridge Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PB
Received 11 Nov 20228 Ilminster Dunster Crescent Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 9EB
Received 10 Nov 202247 Providence Lane Long Ashton BS41 9DL
Received 10 Nov 2022Land Adjacent To 2 Sunnyside Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 11 Nov 2022Wembury 3 Station Road Yatton BS49 4AJ
Received 11 Nov 2022Westex House Winterstoke Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3YS
Received 14 Nov 2022Yew Tree Farmhouse Garston Lane Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7TG
Received 14 Nov 202210A Warren Lane Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9DA
Received 14 Nov 2022Fir Tree Farm, 13 Ashford Road Redhill BS40 5TH
Received 14 Nov 202217 Edgehill Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7BZ
Received 14 Nov 2022172 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3LU
Received 14 Nov 202213 Brean Down Avenue Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 4JH
Received 14 Nov 20229 The Crescent Worlebury Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 9SR
Received 14 Nov 202216 Old Church Road Uphill North Somerset BS23 4UH
Received 8 Nov 202222 Midhaven Rise Weston-super-Mare BS22 9LT
Received 15 Nov 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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