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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.
6,972 approved · 922 refused · 396 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land To South Haberfield Park Farm Off Pill Road Abbots Leigh
Received 23 May 2023Land North East Of Bow Cottage Gatcombe Lane Flax Bourton
Received 23 May 202322 And 22A Old Church Road Clevedon BS21 6LY
Received 23 May 2023April Cottage Bell Square Blagdon North Somerset BS40 7UB
Received 24 May 202323 Chestnut Drive Claverham North Somerset BS49 4LN
Received 24 May 2023Atlantic Heights Land South Of Atlantic Road South Weston-super-Mare
Received 24 May 20238 - 8A Old Street Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6ND
Received 24 May 2023Land North Of The A368, Towerhead Road East Of Towerbook Farm Banwell
Received 24 May 2023Wilderspool Bells Walk Wrington BS40 5PU
Received 24 May 20239 South Avenue Portishead BS20 7EP
Received 24 May 20235 Vian End Weston-super-Mare BS22 9QD
Received 24 May 20235A-5C Clevedon Walk Nailsea BS48 1RQ
Received 24 May 2023Land To The Rear Of The Ship Hotel West Street Banwell North Somerset
Received 24 May 2023Lyndhurst Mill Lane Congresbury North Somerset BS49 5JD
Received 24 May 202323 Burrington Avenue Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 9LP
Received 25 May 202344 Hilldale Road Backwell BS48 3JZ
Received 25 May 20234 Parsonage Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LL
Received 23 May 202330 Church Road Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0NB
Received 25 May 2023Abbots Leigh Cricket Club Abbots Leigh Road Abbots Leigh North Somerset BS8 3QD
Received 25 May 202314 Holland Street Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2UP
Received 25 May 20231 Lynch Crescent Winscombe BS25 1AS
Received 25 May 2023320 Worle Moor Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS24 7JG
Received 26 May 2023Blagdon Water Garden Centre Bath Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5DN
Received 26 May 2023Wyndham West Street Banwell North Somerset BS29 6DE
Received 26 May 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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