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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.
6,908 approved · 918 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Gerard Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RE
Received 23 Jan 2023The Glen Tower House Lane Wraxall BS48 1JX
Received 24 Jan 202387 Hillside Road Portishead BS20 8LJ
Received 24 Jan 2023141 Heron Gardens Portishead BS20 7BN
Received 24 Jan 202322 Mountbatten Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9LR
Received 24 Jan 202340 Lower Down Road Portishead BS20 6PE
Received 24 Jan 202334 - 36 Trewartha Park Weston-Super-Mare BS23 2RT
Received 24 Jan 202320 East Street Banwell North Somerset BS29 6BW
Received 29 Dec 2022Gatcombe Farm Industrial Estate West Hay Road Wrington BS40 5GF
Received 24 Jan 2023Land Off Silver Moor Lane Banwell BS29 6LQ
Received 24 Jan 2023Mendip Spring Golf Course Honeyhall Lane Congresbury BS49 5JT
Received 24 Jan 2023Pegasus Court 58 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 4AL
Received 29 Dec 202248 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2PT
Received 29 Dec 2022Conygar Quarry Nortons Wood Lane Clevedon North Somerset
Received 25 Jan 2023Quarry Mead Nortons Wood Lane Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7AE
Received 25 Jan 2023Court Farmhouse Station Road Blagdon BS40 7TD
Received 25 Jan 20233 Dundry Lane Dundry BS41 8JH
Received 25 Jan 2023Land At Caswell Hill Portbury Clapton In Gordano BS20 7RZ
Received 25 Jan 20233 Hillside Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LG
Received 25 Jan 2023The Paddocks Manor Lane Abbots Leigh BS8 3RU
Received 26 Jan 202321 Stowey Park Yatton BS49 4JX
Received 26 Jan 2023Bristol Airport Ltd Bristol International Airport North Side Road Felton North Somerset BS48 3DY
Received 26 Jan 2023Locking Mosslands Land West Of Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset
Received 26 Jan 202370 Hillside Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8JR
Received 26 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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