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6,902 approved · 916 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Strode Road Clevedon BS21 6QA
Received 21 Dec 202248 Venus Street Congresbury North Somerset BS49 5EZ
Received 23 Dec 202220 Church Street Banwell BS29 6EA
Received 23 Dec 20222 Jubilee Cottages West End Lane Nailsea BS48 4DA
Received 23 Dec 202232 Waterloo Street Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1LW
Received 23 Dec 2022Oh Buoy Woodlands Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 7HF
Received 23 Dec 2022Land To The West Of Orchard House North End Road Yatton
Received 23 Dec 202227 Ridgeway Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9EY
Received 23 Dec 2022Unit 1 Maple House Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 23 Dec 2022Land At Haybow, North Of The A370 And East Of The M5 Motorway Hewish North Somerset
Received 23 Dec 20226 Drakes Way Portishead BS20 6LB
Received 23 Dec 2022Innock House Chew Road Winford North Somerset BS40 8EZ
Received 23 Dec 2022West Riding Bristol Road Churchill BS25 5NJ
Received 28 Dec 202210 Baker Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 3AB
Received 28 Dec 202246 Baytree Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8HJ
Received 29 Dec 202228 Forest Drive Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2UB
Received 29 Dec 2022Sandford Station Retirement Village Station Road Sandford BS25 5AA
Received 30 Dec 2022290 Down Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8JT
Received 30 Dec 2022The Byre Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5BL
Received 3 Jan 20234 Worlebury Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9RT
Received 3 Jan 2023Charters Bridge Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PE
Received 3 Jan 2023The Acorns Esplanade Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 7HB
Received 3 Jan 2023Lynn Wood Main Road Brockley North Somerset BS48 3BB
Received 3 Jan 2023Rose Bank 6 Dark Lane Banwell BS29 6BP
Received 3 Jan 2023Records 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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