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.
7,241 approved · 948 refused · 410 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Opposite Trendlewood Way Nailsea
Received 27 Nov 202317A Edgehill Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7BZ
Received 27 Nov 20231 - 2 Crown Glass Place Nailsea North Somerset BS48 1RD
Received 27 Nov 202330 West Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1JU
Received 28 Nov 2023Outside The Olde Bake House Mansfield Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS23 2YD
Received 24 Nov 2023Outside 139 Milton Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8AA
Received 24 Nov 2023Outside 6 Ashcombe Park Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2YE
Received 24 Nov 2023Outside 28 Hatfield Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2UT
Received 24 Nov 202367 Westbourne Avenue Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7YE
Received 28 Nov 202318 Rayens Cross Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9DZ
Received 28 Nov 20235 St Catherines Mead Pill North Somerset BS20 0HQ
Received 28 Nov 2023Land To The Rear Of The Ship Hotel West Street Banwell
Received 28 Nov 2023Chelvey Court Chelvey Road Chelvey North Somerset BS48 4AA
Received 28 Nov 20237 Lower Linden Road Clevedon BS21 7SU
Received 28 Nov 2023Land Opposite And To East Of The Full Quart, Off Bristol Road (A370), Hewish Puxton
Received 28 Nov 2023Hill Farm Winscombe Hill Winscombe North Somerset BS25 1DJ
Received 29 Nov 2023East Terminal Building Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 29 Nov 202332 Brean Down Avenue Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 4JQ
Received 29 Nov 202379 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2TW
Received 29 Nov 2023Land Adjacent To Box Bush Farm Box Bush Lane Rolstone North Somerset BS24 6UA
Received 29 Nov 2023Taggart House Walton Street Walton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS21 7AP
Received 29 Nov 2023Shipway Gate Farm Sheepway Portbury BS20 7TB
Received 29 Nov 202311 Frog Lane Felton BS40 9UN
Received 29 Nov 20231 Jubilee Homes Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5HU
Received 29 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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