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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.
7,055 approved · 926 refused · 401 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tree Tops Manor Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RT
Received 13 Sept 20237 Lower Linden Road Clevedon BS21 7SU
Received 13 Sept 2023Waste Transfer Station Aisecome Way Weston-super-Mare BS22 8NA
Received 13 Sept 202316 Beach Road Kewstoke BS22 9UZ
Received 13 Sept 20238 Bull Lane Pill BS20 0EF
Received 13 Sept 20232 Red Cottages Aldwick Lane Redhill BS40 5RQ
Received 13 Sept 202314 Lodge Close Yatton North Somerset BS49 4DX
Received 13 Sept 2023Willow Farm Ebdon Lane Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YA
Received 13 Sept 2023Land To The West Of M5 And East Of Trenchard Road Locking
Received 14 Sept 202346 Hillcrest Road Nailsea BS48 2JA
Received 13 Sept 2023Avonside 6 Pump Square Pill BS20 0BG
Received 14 Sept 20237 Edgehill Road Clevedon BS21 7BZ
Received 14 Sept 202342 Venus Street Congresbury BS49 5EZ
Received 14 Sept 20232 Trewartha Park Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RP
Received 12 Sept 202334 Hill Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RY
Received 12 Sept 202315 Herbert Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7ND
Received 12 Sept 202328 All Saints Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2NN
Received 12 Sept 2023Lake House Vicarage Road Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PH
Received 14 Sept 2023Sloughpitt Farm Sandford Road Winscombe BS25 1JF
Received 14 Sept 2023Portishead Quays Harbour Road Portishead North Somerset
Received 14 Sept 202395 Station Road Nailsea BS48 1TD
Received 14 Sept 2023Spreyton Guest House 72 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 15 Sept 2023106 Church Lane Backwell BS48 3JW
Received 15 Sept 2023Backwell C Of E Junior Church Lane Backwell North Somerset BS48 3JJ
Received 15 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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