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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.
7,203 approved · 942 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
National Nautical School Nore Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8EJ
Received 6 Oct 202398 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9LF
Received 6 Oct 2023Atcost Barn, Glen Farm Sandy Lane Lower Failand
Received 6 Oct 202335 Bournville Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3RN
Received 6 Oct 202318 Cedar Way Nailsea BS48 1QZ
Received 6 Oct 20236 Tomahawk Road Weston-super-Mare BS24 8GD
Received 6 Oct 202345 Ash Grove Clevedon BS21 7JZ
Received 9 Oct 202337 Farleigh Road Backwell North Somerset BS48 3PB
Received 9 Oct 2023Land At 17 And Waterside, The Bay Walton Bay Walton-in-Gordano North Somerset
Received 9 Oct 2023Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 3 Oct 20233 Florence Mews Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 3FR
Received 9 Oct 2023St Marys Church Castle Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7BX
Received 9 Oct 2023The Farm House Cox's Green Wrington BS40 5QU
Received 10 Oct 202316A Chesham Road South Weston-super-Mare BS22 8LP
Received 10 Oct 2023Plot A5 At Junction Of Beaufighter Road And Cross Road Weston Business Quarter Weston-super-Mare BS24 8EE
Received 10 Oct 202387 Beach Road Kewstoke BS22 9UQ
Received 10 Oct 20233 Lye Mead Winford BS40 8AU
Received 10 Oct 2023Cottage Homes Front Street Churchill North Somerset BS25 5NE
Received 10 Oct 202327C Gerard Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2RE
Received 10 Oct 2023Somerlea House Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5HU
Received 10 Oct 20233 South Lawn Close Locking North Somerset BS24 8AE
Received 10 Oct 2023The Manor House Clevedon Road Walton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS21 7AN
Received 10 Oct 2023Steel Barn At Brown Rock Farm 187 Clevedon Road Tickenham BS21 6RT
Received 6 Oct 2023Land West Of Locking Parklands (former Moss Land) Parklands Village Locking
Received 6 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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