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.
6,890 approved · 916 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Plas Newydd Whitecross Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1ET
Received 18 Nov 2022Monaghan Mushrooms Farm Stock Lane Langford
Received 17 Nov 202254 Coleridge Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3UL
Received 18 Nov 2022Land At Bridgwater Road (A38) Highways Land Off Bridgwater Road Adjacent To Colliters Way (Lime Kiln Roundabout) Long Ashton
Received 16 Nov 202267 High Street Yatton North Somerset BS49 4EQ
Received 18 Nov 202225 Valley Road Portishead BS20 8JU
Received 18 Nov 2022Flat 2 Glencliffe Mansions 12 Atlantic Road South Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2DE
Received 18 Nov 2022Stable Block Leigh Court Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RL
Received 21 Nov 2022Stable Block Leigh Court Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RL
Received 21 Nov 20224 Highland Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9SW
Received 21 Nov 2022Bourne Wood Tickenham Hill Tickenham BS21 6SP
Received 21 Nov 2022Linden Grove The Batch Butcombe North Somerset BS40 7UY
Received 21 Nov 2022Willows Church Walk Wrington North Somerset BS40 5QQ
Received 21 Nov 2022South West Skills Campus 393 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 8NL
Received 18 Nov 2022131 Weston Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9AE
Received 21 Nov 2022Greenhills The Steps Dundry BS41 8JB
Received 21 Nov 20221 Old Vicarage Close Pill North Somerset BS20 0BF
Received 21 Nov 202215 Church Road North Portishead North Somerset BS20 6PS
Received 21 Nov 202217 Harptree Close Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4YT
Received 22 Nov 202219 Martock Dunster Crescent Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 9EA
Received 22 Nov 2022Belle Vista West Hill Wraxall North Somerset BS48 1PL
Received 22 Nov 202277 Old Park Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7HT
Received 23 Nov 202269 Yeolands Drive Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7YT
Received 23 Nov 202247 The Avenue Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7DZ
Received 23 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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