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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.
6,934 approved · 919 refused · 394 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 Clevedon Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1DF
Received 16 Mar 2023Linden Grove Howgrove Hill Lane Nempnett Thrubwell Bath And North East Somerset BS40 7UY
Received 14 Mar 20233 Mulberry Avenue Portishead BS20 7LG
Received 17 Mar 2023First And Second Floors 48 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1JA
Received 16 Mar 2023Land To West Of Court House Farm Marsh Lane Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0NE
Received 16 Mar 2023Flat 2 3 Grove Park Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2LW
Received 17 Mar 2023Land South Of Churchland Way And Wolvershill Road Mead Fields Banwell Weston-super-Mare
Received 17 Mar 2023Fourways Bath Road Burrington North Somerset BS40 5DG
Received 17 Mar 2023Chy An Mor Woodlands Road Portishead BS20 7HF
Received 17 Mar 20234A Woodside Gardens Portishead North Somerset BS20 8EQ
Received 17 Mar 202330 West Street Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1JU
Received 17 Mar 20231 The Zig-Zag Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7EJ
Received 20 Mar 20239 Baytree Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8HG
Received 20 Mar 2023The Old Manse Chapel Hill Wrington BS40 5NJ
Received 20 Mar 202321 Thackeray Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7JQ
Received 20 Mar 2023Sewage Treatment Works Warth Lane Wick St Lawrence BS22 7YP
Received 16 Mar 2023Land At Church Road South Portishead North Somerset
Received 20 Mar 20239 - 10 Claremont Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 2ED
Received 20 Mar 202312 Northfield Road Portishead BS20 8LE
Received 20 Mar 2023West Side Sheepway Portbury BS20 7TE
Received 20 Mar 2023The Star Inn Clevedon Road Tickenham BS21 6SE
Received 20 Mar 202315 Upper Town Lane Felton BS40 9YA
Received 20 Mar 202316 The Maples Nailsea BS48 4RT
Received 20 Mar 2023117B High Street Portishead North Somerset BS20 6PT
Received 20 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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