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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.
7,028 approved · 925 refused · 399 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Sidcot Drive Winscombe North Somerset BS25 1LH
Received 19 Jul 2023Land West Of Kenn Road Kenn Clevedon
Received 19 Jul 2023Flat 1 27 Old Church Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6LU
Received 19 Jul 202393 Station Road Nailsea BS48 1TD
Received 19 Jul 202393 Station Road Nailsea BS48 1TD
Received 19 Jul 20234 Parsonage Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LL
Received 18 Jul 2023140A High Street Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 6HE
Received 19 Jul 202314 Mariners Way Pill North Somerset BS20 0BD
Received 19 Jul 202325 Conygar Close Clevedon BS21 6AP
Received 20 Jul 2023Land At Queensway Roundabout St Georges Weston-super-Mare BS22 6BT
Received 17 Jul 202324 Princes Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7SZ
Received 20 Jul 20236 Blackmoor Close Langford North Somerset BS40 5HN
Received 20 Jul 2023Woodrising Hillside Road Bleadon North Somerset BS24 0AA
Received 20 Jul 2023Workshop East Of Sand Farm Caravan Site Sand Farm Lane Kewstoke
Received 20 Jul 202310 Links Road Uphill BS23 4XX
Received 20 Jul 20235 Kempes Close Long Ashton BS41 9ER
Received 20 Jul 20233 Broadoaks North Road Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PN
Received 20 Jul 202313 Ashford Road Redhill North Somerset BS40 5TH
Received 21 Jul 2023Land At Bristol Cathedral Choir School Playing Fields Beggar Bush Lane Failand North Somerset
Received 21 Jul 20237 Hillview Gardens Felton Winford BS40 9UH
Received 20 Jul 2023Land Adjacent Station Road Nailsea
Received 21 Jul 2023Car Park Weston Retail Park Marchfields Way Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3YZ
Received 21 Jul 202318 Partridge Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 8TY
Received 24 Jul 20235 Landemann Circus Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2QE
Received 24 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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