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.
7,170 approved · 937 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Annes Lodge Bristol Road Hewish North Somerset BS24 6RT
Received 15 Sept 2023Broadstone Silver Street Wrington BS40 5QE
Received 15 Sept 2023Wych Elm Martcombe Road Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0QE
Received 15 Sept 2023101 The Downs Portishead North Somerset BS20 6EE
Received 18 Sept 202370 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LE
Received 18 Sept 202312 Trawden Close Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2UE
Received 18 Sept 202318 Derham Park Yatton BS49 4DZ
Received 18 Sept 20231A Springfield Road Portishead BS20 6LH
Received 14 Sept 2023Hillside Vicarage Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3RT
Received 18 Sept 2023Smyth House Bridge Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PE
Received 18 Sept 2023Wych Elm Martcombe Road Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0QE
Received 15 Sept 20232 Elgar Close Clevedon BS21 5BS
Received 18 Sept 20232 Osprey Gardens Weston-super-Mare BS22 6YN
Received 18 Sept 202310 Walliscote Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1UG
Received 18 Sept 202341 Copse Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7QN
Received 18 Sept 2023Christon Court Banwell Road Christon North Somerset BS26 2XX
Received 18 Sept 20232 Mill Lane Portbury North Somerset BS20 7TU
Received 19 Sept 2023Ashcombe Primary Earlham Grove Weston-super-Mare BS23 3JW
Received 19 Sept 202315 Old Park Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7JH
Received 19 Sept 20238 Wingard Close Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4UL
Received 19 Sept 20237 Rickford Road Nailsea North Somerset BS48 4PY
Received 19 Sept 20234 Hazelbury Road Nailsea North Somerset BS48 2JF
Received 19 Sept 20236 Collingwood Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9PQ
Received 19 Sept 202338 St James Street Weston-Super-Mare
Received 19 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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