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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.
7,241 approved · 948 refused · 410 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Purn Villa Purn Way Bleadon North Somerset BS24 0QE
Received 23 Nov 2023Uphill Grange Nursing Home Uphill Road South Uphill BS23 4TX
Received 23 Nov 2023Uphill Grange Nursing Home Uphill Road South Uphill BS23 4TX
Received 23 Nov 202326 Upper Church Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DX
Received 23 Nov 2023Land To The East Of Wesley Manse Dinghurst Road Churchill BS25 5SE
Received 23 Nov 202343 Sidcot Lane Winscombe BS25 1LP
Received 23 Nov 2023Mulberry Cottage Church Walk Wrington BS40 5QQ
Received 23 Nov 2023The Cider House The Grange Business Park Wick Lane, West Hewish Puxton BS24 6RR
Received 24 Nov 2023Five Bars Kingdown Road Bristol BS40 8DP
Received 24 Nov 20231 The Sycamores Celtic Way Bleadon BS24 0NF
Received 24 Nov 20233 The Avenue Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7EB
Received 24 Nov 20231 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7LN
Received 23 Nov 2023Gobbles Farm Wolvershill Road Banwell BS29 6LA
Received 24 Nov 2023Outside 26A Grove Road Milton Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 8HE
Received 24 Nov 2023Stileways West Hill Wraxall BS48 1PH
Received 24 Nov 202320A Flax Bourton Road Failand North Somerset BS8 3UW
Received 24 Nov 202336 Derham Park Yatton North Somerset BS49 4DZ
Received 27 Nov 202334 Oakleigh Close Backwell BS48 3JU
Received 27 Nov 2023Redcliffe 2 The Avenue Yatton BS49 4DA
Received 24 Nov 2023Outide 1 Florence Grove Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 8AW
Received 27 Nov 202312 Backwell Hill Road Backwell North Somerset BS48 3PL
Received 27 Nov 202310 Walnut Close Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4YH
Received 27 Nov 2023O/S 34A Farm Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 8BD
Received 27 Nov 20239 Severnmeade Portishead North Somerset BS20 8DZ
Received 27 Nov 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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