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.
7,048 approved · 926 refused · 400 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Town Hall Walliscote Grove Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1UJ
Received 7 Sept 2023Land At Burnt House Farm North End Road Yatton North Somerset
Received 8 Sept 202335 Highdale Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7LR
Received 8 Sept 2023Priory Community School Adj Caretakers Bungalow Queensway Weston-super-Mare BS22 6BP
Received 8 Sept 202353 Dark Lane Backwell North Somerset BS48 3NT
Received 8 Sept 202371 Jubilee Cottages Bristol Road Wraxall BS48 1LJ
Received 8 Sept 2023Woodland Opposite Clarken Coombe Lodge And To The Rear Of Buttercliffe Farm Long Ashton Road BS41 9JQ
Received 11 Sept 202317 Wellington Terrace Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7PT
Received 11 Sept 202355 South Meadows Wrington BS40 5PG
Received 11 Sept 2023373A Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8NH
Received 11 Sept 202327 Rippleside Portishead BS20 6ND
Received 11 Sept 202339 Cannons Gate Clevedon North Somerset BS21 5HL
Received 11 Sept 20231B Lower Linden Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7SU
Received 11 Sept 202322 Gordon Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3BD
Received 12 Sept 2023Mast At Weston-super-Mare Cricket Club Devonshire Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4NY
Received 11 Sept 2023Loxton Lea Sevier Road Loxton BS26 2XE
Received 8 Sept 2023Bracken Barn Sheepway Portbury
Received 12 Sept 202320 Fennel Road Portishead BS20 7FB
Received 12 Sept 2023Beach Lawns Beach Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 12 Sept 2023The Flight Shed The Taxiway Weston-super-Mare BS24 8FL
Received 12 Sept 2023147 Clevedon Road Tickenham BS21 6RF
Received 13 Sept 202322 Riverleaze Portishead BS20 8EA
Received 13 Sept 202340 Montpelier Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RN
Received 13 Sept 2023Tree Tops Manor Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RT
Received 13 Sept 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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