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.
7,193 approved · 940 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ground Floor Flat 108 Spring Hill Weston-super-Mare BS22 9BD
Received 29 Sept 20231 Chantry Close Nailsea BS48 4FN
Received 29 Sept 202321 - 23 High Street Portishead BS20 6AB
Received 29 Sept 20235 Briar Mead Yatton North Somerset BS49 4RE
Received 2 Oct 2023Land West Of Horsecastle Farm Horsecastle Farm Road Yatton
Received 2 Oct 2023The Cottages 18 Hospital Road Barrow Gurney BS48 3SF
Received 28 Sept 202317A Edgehill Road Clevedon BS21 7BZ
Received 28 Sept 202346 Down Road Portishead BS20 8BH
Received 2 Oct 202312 Church Lane Tickenham BS21 6SD
Received 2 Oct 2023Sewage Works Warth Lane Wick St Lawrence North Somerset
Received 2 Oct 2023Land At Dinghurst Road Churchill
Received 2 Oct 2023Home Ground Farm Yeo Bank Lane Kingston Seymour Clevedon BS21 6XH
Received 3 Oct 202321 Walton Crescent Winford BS40 8DD
Received 3 Oct 202376 Walton Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6AN
Received 3 Oct 202341A Main Road (The Barn) Cleeve BS49 4NZ
Received 2 Oct 20239 Cottage Homes Front Street Churchill BS25 5NE
Received 3 Oct 2023Agricultural Building Off Weston Road Congresbury
Received 3 Oct 202312 Milton Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2SB
Received 3 Oct 202338 Kenn Moor Drive Clevedon BS21 5AB
Received 3 Oct 2023Oxhouse Farm Claverham Drove Lower Claverham BS49 4PX
Received 4 Oct 202322 Porters Drive Banwell BS29 6EJ
Received 4 Oct 2023Entrance To Hill View Barn Bath Road Blagdon BS40 7TH
Received 29 Sept 2023Pump House Land Off Kingston Lane Bristol Winford BS40 8DD
Received 4 Oct 2023Land To The Rear Of 33 Sandford Road And 31-37 Mendip Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Oct 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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