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.
6,930 approved · 919 refused · 394 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rodney House 34 - 36 Trewartha Park Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RT
Received 8 Mar 2023Land At Yeo Bank Farm Yeo Bank Lane Wick St Lawrence BS21 6XH
Received 10 Mar 2023Land At Moor Road Yatton
Received 10 Mar 2023Land At Worle Quarry Lower Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 10 Mar 2023Myrtle Farm Nailsea Wall Lane Nailsea BS48 4DE
Received 10 Mar 202314 Atlantic Road South Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DF
Received 13 Mar 20231 Felton House Farm Upper Town Lane Felton Winford BS40 9YA
Received 10 Mar 2023Newleaze Nurseries Churchill Green Churchill BS25 5QH
Received 13 Mar 202314 Bramley Drive Backwell North Somerset BS48 3HN
Received 13 Mar 2023Hinkley Point C Connection Project, Between Bridgwater In Somerset And Seabank Substation, North Of Avonmouth.
Received 13 Mar 202319 Waterside Park Portishead BS20 8LL
Received 13 Mar 2023337 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3LY
Received 14 Mar 20238 Guillemot Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 7PH
Received 14 Mar 202326 Worlebury Park Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9RZ
Received 14 Mar 20239 Church Lane Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LU
Received 15 Mar 2023Shepton Copse Part Of Banwell Woods Towerhead Road Banwell North Somerset
Received 15 Mar 202333 Hercules Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 8ET
Received 14 Mar 2023Cowshed Glen Farm Sandy Lane Lower Failand Abbots Leigh BS8 3SE
Received 15 Mar 202355 Trendlewood Way Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2TH
Received 15 Mar 20237A Down Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 6EB
Received 16 Mar 2023Walnut Tree House Station Road Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7TB
Received 16 Mar 2023Walnut Tree House Station Road Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7TB
Received 16 Mar 2023Edwards Kenn Business Park Barns Ground Kenn Clevedon BS21 6TH
Received 16 Mar 2023Riverside Holiday Village Bridgwater Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0AN
Received 16 Mar 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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