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.
7,020 approved · 924 refused · 398 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Highdale Road Clevedon BS21 7LW
Received 14 Jul 20235 Highdale Road Clevedon BS21 7LW
Received 14 Jul 202335 Dial Hill Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7EL
Received 13 Jul 20232 - 6 Bay Road Clevedon
Received 11 Jul 2023Wallflower House 30 Coronation Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0PG
Received 11 Jul 2023Land Adjacent To Barrowfields Cottage (to East) Off Dial Lane Felton Barrow Gurney
Received 14 Jul 202327 Ridgeway Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9EY
Received 12 Jul 202348 Greenhill Road Sandford BS25 5PB
Received 14 Jul 2023Newditch Farm Potters Hill Felton BS40 9XB
Received 14 Jul 2023The Longhouse 25 East Street Banwell BS29 6BW
Received 12 Jul 2023Land At Chestnut Farm North End Road Yatton BS49 4AS
Received 14 Jul 2023East Terminal Building Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 14 Jul 2023101 Ebdon Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6US
Received 14 Jul 202378 Down Road Portishead Somerset BS20 8DA
Received 17 Jul 2023Ferncliffe North Road Leigh Woods North Somerset
Received 17 Jul 2023The Old Barn Uphill Road South, Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TU
Received 17 Jul 2023276 Down Road Portishead BS20 8HZ
Received 17 Jul 2023David Lloyd Leisure Plc Ashton Road Long Ashton BS3 2HB
Received 14 Jul 202316 Belmont Drive Failand North Somerset BS8 3UU
Received 14 Jul 202329 The Avenue Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7DZ
Received 17 Jul 2023Pavement Outside 11 And 12 Cedar Close Long Ashton BS41 9DS
Received 17 Jul 202312 Wood Hill Park Portishead BS20 7DR
Received 17 Jul 2023Bath House 54 Church Lane Hutton BS24 9SN
Received 17 Jul 2023Tangle Wood Brockley Lane Brockley North Somerset BS48 4AY
Received 17 Jul 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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