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.
6,908 approved · 918 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Broadleaze Way Winscombe BS25 1JX
Received 26 Jan 202315 Ellenborough Park North Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1XQ
Received 10 Jan 2023Drainage Detention Basin Dabinett Drive Sandford BS25 5AF
Received 26 Jan 2023Construction Training Centre Locking Head Drove Locking BS24 7NA
Received 26 Jan 2023Sages Barn Butcombe Lane Butcombe Bristol BS40 7XF
Received 27 Jan 2023Sages Barn Butcombe Lane Butcombe Bristol BS40 7XF
Received 27 Jan 202349 Church Road Winscombe BS25 1BP
Received 27 Jan 2023Southview Barton Road Winscombe BS25 1BL
Received 27 Jan 2023Adullam Stock Lane Langford Bristol North Somerset BS40 5EX
Received 27 Jan 2023Woodlands Woodlands Road Portishead BS20 7HF
Received 27 Jan 20235 Rookery Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9LN
Received 27 Jan 2023Land Adjacent To Wolvershill Road Banwell
Received 27 Jan 2023Land Off Abbots Leigh Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3QB
Received 27 Jan 2023Howard Garages Weston Ltd Hildesheim Bridge Weston-super-Mare BS23 3PT
Received 27 Jan 2023Land Off Abbots Leigh Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3QB
Received 27 Jan 2023Land At The Junction Of Bleadon Hill And Bridgwater Road, Uphill Weston-super-Mare
Received 26 Jan 20236 Ranchway Portishead North Somerset BS20 8DQ
Received 26 Jan 202349 Martingale Way Portishead BS20 7SW
Received 27 Jan 202379 Providence Lane Long Ashton BS41 9DL
Received 27 Jan 202347 Beach Road Kewstoke BS22 9UU
Received 30 Jan 202325A Montpelier Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RJ
Received 30 Jan 202378 Brampton Way Portishead BS20 6YT
Received 30 Jan 2023Willowbrook Farm East Hewish Lane Hewish Puxton BS24 6RZ
Received 30 Jan 2023114 Sandford Road Winscombe BS25 1JJ
Received 30 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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