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.
6,902 approved · 916 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Chapel Hill Backwell North Somerset BS48 3PW
Received 9 Dec 20227 Shaftesbury Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2YB
Received 9 Dec 2022Land At 2 The Crescent Backwell BS48 3NL
Received 9 Dec 202218 Jubilee Drive Failand BS8 3XD
Received 9 Dec 2022Cherrywood Orchard Walk Churchill North Somerset BS25 5NF
Received 9 Dec 202223A Clevedon Road Failand BS8 3UG
Received 12 Dec 202215 Addicott Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3PY
Received 12 Dec 2022Glentworth Court Knightstone Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2BQ
Received 12 Dec 202228 Mead Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 6RZ
Received 12 Dec 202214 Bilbie Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 7QE
Received 12 Dec 2022Greens Wood Ropers Lane Wrington North Somerset BS40 5NH
Received 12 Dec 2022539 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8QU
Received 12 Dec 202247 - 49 High Street (Former M&S Store) Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HD
Received 12 Dec 2022Land To North Of Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton BS49 4EU
Received 5 Oct 202224 Clarence Road South Weston-super-Mare BS23 4BN
Received 12 Dec 2022Wallflower House 30 Coronation Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0PG
Received 12 Dec 202219 Esmond Grove Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7HW
Received 12 Dec 202252 Clevedon Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1DF
Received 12 Dec 202267 Ridgeway Road Long Ashton BS41 9EZ
Received 13 Dec 2022Bowley House 6 Hillside Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LG
Received 13 Dec 202272 Walton Road Clevedon BS21 6AN
Received 13 Dec 2022Land To The South Of 6 Harmony Drive Portishead North Somerset
Received 13 Dec 2022Burwalls Burwalls Road Leigh Woods North Somerset
Received 13 Dec 2022Land To The West Of Barton And South Of Barton Road Winscombe North Somerset
Received 13 Dec 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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