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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.
7,034 approved · 926 refused · 400 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Townshend Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 7FW
Received 4 Aug 20236 High Street Banwell BS29 6AA
Received 4 Aug 202335A Station Road St Georges Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 7XN
Received 2 Aug 2023Weston Airfield Phase 2 Primary School Land South Of The Runway Haywood Village Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Aug 2023Collum Farm Collum Lane Kewstoke BS22 9YX
Received 4 Aug 2023Collum Farm Collum Lane Kewstoke BS22 9YX
Received 4 Aug 2023Collum Farm Collum Lane Kewstoke BS22 9YX
Received 4 Aug 2023Langford House Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5DU
Received 4 Aug 202316 Holland Street Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2UP
Received 4 Aug 2023Orchard Lea Walton Street Walton-in-Gordano BS21 7AP
Received 4 Aug 2023Building At Red Rock Barn Tickenham Hill Tickenham BS21 6SW
Received 7 Aug 202337 Chipping Cross Clevedon BS21 5JG
Received 7 Aug 20236 Slades Court Backwell BS48 3LJ
Received 7 Aug 20237 Lower Linden Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7SU
Received 7 Aug 2023Agricultural Barn Located North Of Roman Road Bleadon
Received 7 Aug 2023Land To The East Of Puxton Lane And South Of Dolemoor Lane Puxton Congresbury BS49 5ED
Received 7 Aug 202338 Wrington Road Congresbury BS40 5AB
Received 4 Aug 2023The Cottages 16 Hospital Road Barrow Gurney North Somerset BS48 3SF
Received 4 Aug 2023Building 7 At The Heritage Works Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Aug 2023Pavement On Highbury Road Outside 20 Atlantic Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DQ
Received 2 Aug 2023Pavement Of Highbury Road Outside 66 South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LZ
Received 2 Aug 2023Pavement Outside 10 St Matthews Close Weston-super-Mare BS23 2JP
Received 2 Aug 2023Clifton College Sports Club Abbots Leigh Road Abbots Leigh North Somerset BS8 3QD
Received 7 Aug 2023Freemans Quarry Potters Hill Felton Barrow Gurney BS48 3XB
Received 7 Aug 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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