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7,241 approved · 948 refused · 410 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Southville Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4LX
Received 20 Dec 202333 Cliff Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9SE
Received 20 Dec 202384 New Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6AL
Received 20 Dec 2023222 Down Road Portishead BS20 8DG
Received 20 Dec 202358 Hillcrest Road Nailsea BS48 2HW
Received 20 Dec 2023White Oak House Youngwood Lane Nailsea BS48 4NS
Received 20 Dec 2023Farm House Locking Head Farm Locking Head Drove Locking BS24 7NA
Received 20 Dec 2023Worle Quarry Lower Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9LF
Received 20 Dec 20234 Grange Close Uphill BS23 4TT
Received 20 Dec 202315 Balmoral Way Weston-super-Mare BS22 9AF
Received 21 Dec 2023Lynn Wood Main Road Brockley BS48 3BB
Received 21 Dec 20233 The Avenue Clevedon BS21 7EB
Received 21 Dec 2023Land South Of The Uplands Nailsea
Received 21 Dec 202312 Church Road Yatton BS49 4HH
Received 21 Dec 2023Land South Of Cobthorn Way Wrington Lane Congresbury North Somerset
Received 21 Dec 2023Land At Riverside Holiday Village Bridgwater Road Bleadon BS24 0AN
Received 18 Dec 20232 Church Farm Station Road Congresbury BS49 5DX
Received 21 Dec 2023323 Milton Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8JH
Received 19 Dec 202369-71 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3DQ
Received 22 Dec 2023229 Clevedon Road Tickenham BS21 6RX
Received 22 Dec 202364 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LE
Received 22 Dec 20239 Black Nore Point Nore Road Portishead BS20 8GB
Received 22 Dec 2023Land At Wick Wharf Fakeham Road Bleadon
Received 20 Dec 2023Portishead Branch Line, Between Portishead in North Somerset and Ashton Junction, Bristol
Received 22 Dec 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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