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.
6,939 approved · 919 refused · 395 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Kewstoke Primary Kewstoke Road Kewstoke BS22 9YF
Received 28 Mar 202333 Beechwood Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8ER
Received 27 Mar 202399 The Cornfields Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 9DY
Received 27 Mar 2023140A High Street Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 6HE
Received 27 Mar 20236 Beechwood Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8EP
Received 28 Mar 2023Taggart House Walton Street Walton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS21 7AP
Received 28 Mar 2023Gatcombe Farm Industrial Estate West Hay Road Wrington Bristol BS40 5GF
Received 28 Mar 2023Building To The South Of Collum Lane Kewstoke
Received 28 Mar 2023F Sweeting And Sons Station Road Sandford BS25 5RQ
Received 28 Mar 202376 Rapide Way Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 8ER
Received 28 Mar 2023Christon Court Farm Flagstaff Road Christon BS26 2XY
Received 8 Mar 2023Units 3-4 Portishead Business Park Old Mill Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 7BX
Received 28 Mar 2023The Bramleys Cox's Green Wrington North Somerset BS40 5QU
Received 29 Mar 202327 Esmond Grove Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7HW
Received 29 Mar 202311 Friary Close Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7QA
Received 29 Mar 202343 Sally Hill Portishead North Somerset BS20 7BH
Received 29 Mar 2023Land At Locking Farm Industrial Estate Locking Moor Road Locking Weston-super-Mare BS22 8PL
Received 28 Mar 20234A Horwood Road Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2LN
Received 29 Mar 2023Land To South Of Batch Farm The Batch Churchill
Received 29 Mar 202367 Cambridge Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7BN
Received 29 Mar 2023Land To North Of Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 27 Mar 2023Sunnymeade Brinsea Batch Congresbury North Somerset BS49 5JR
Received 29 Mar 202319 - 21 Old Street Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6ND
Received 29 Mar 2023Orchard Lea Walton Street Walton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS21 7AP
Received 29 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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