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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.
7,042 approved · 926 refused · 400 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
10 Sherston Close Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2TR
Received 16 Aug 2023Land At Lower Stock Farm Bakers Lane Langford Churchill BS40 5HT
Received 14 Aug 2023Land West Of Wolvershill Road Wolvershill Road Banwell
Received 16 Aug 2023Land Off Severn Road Land Off Chittening Road Land Off Washingpool Lane And Bristol Port Avonmouth Bristol
Received 16 Aug 2023The Club House Churchill Memorial Hall Ladymead Lane Langford Winscombe BS25 5NH
Received 16 Aug 2023Hollowmead Farm Hollowmead Claverham BS49 4LF
Received 17 Aug 2023First Floor Flat 105 Severn Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1DS
Received 17 Aug 2023Land Off Old Mill Way Weston-super-Mare
Received 8 Aug 202332 Blackcurrant Drive Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9FP
Received 16 Aug 2023Pavement On Wooler Road Outside 25 Baker Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 3AA
Received 17 Aug 2023Spring Gardens Duck Lane Langford BS40 5EY
Received 17 Aug 2023Flat 3, 11 Clarence Road East Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 4BP
Received 17 Aug 2023On Pavement Outside 2-24 Pennycress Weston-super-Mare BS22 8QH
Received 17 Aug 2023Pavement Outside 41 Westbourne Crescent Clevedon BS21 7YB
Received 17 Aug 2023Wallflower House 30 Coronation Road Bleadon BS24 0PG
Received 17 Aug 2023Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton BS49 4EU
Received 17 Aug 2023Home Ground Farm Yeo Bank Lane Kingston Seymour Clevedon BS21 6XH
Received 17 Aug 2023Land East Of 48 Venus Street Congresbury North Somerset BS49 5EZ
Received 17 Aug 2023Land At The Uplands Nailsea
Received 18 Aug 202396 Nore Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8EN
Received 18 Aug 2023Land At Worle Quarry Lower Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9LF
Received 18 Aug 20231 Observatory Field Winscombe North Somerset BS25 1LL
Received 18 Aug 2023Stable Block Leigh Court Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RL
Received 18 Aug 2023Stable Block Leigh Court Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RL
Received 18 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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