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.
7,203 approved · 942 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Land Adjacent To The For All Healthy Living Centre 68 Lonsdale Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS23 3SJ
Received 12 Oct 202385 West Hill Portishead BS20 6LQ
Received 12 Oct 2023Hamwood Park Christon Road Loxton BS26 2XP
Received 12 Oct 2023Gatcombe Farm Industrial Estate West Hay Road Wrington Bristol BS40 5GF
Received 12 Oct 202388 The Maples Nailsea BS48 4RY
Received 12 Oct 202329 Brampton Way Portishead North Somerset BS20 6YD
Received 12 Oct 2023J Fox School Of Dance 153 High Street, Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 6HQ
Received 13 Oct 202364 Greenhill Road Sandford BS25 5PB
Received 13 Oct 20234A High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HZ
Received 13 Oct 2023Seaway Walton Bay Walton-in-Gordano Clevedon BS21 7AZ
Received 13 Oct 2023Byways Caravan Park Strode Road Clevedon North Somerset
Received 13 Oct 20237 Raleigh Rise Portishead BS20 6LA
Received 13 Oct 2023Portishead Branch Line, Between Portishead in North Somerset and Ashton Junction, Bristol
Received 13 Oct 2023Random The Ripple Tickenham BS21 6SJ
Received 13 Oct 202311 Pinecroft Portishead North Somerset BS20 8ED
Received 16 Oct 2023St Johns Vicarage 1 St Johns Road Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7TG
Received 16 Oct 202344 Bristol Road Portishead BS20 6QB
Received 16 Oct 20234 Trinity Villas 23 South Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2HD
Received 16 Oct 2023Speen House 13 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 16 Oct 2023Speen House 13 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 16 Oct 20232 Cecil Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2NE
Received 16 Oct 2023Gruff Cottage 53A Cleeve Hill Road Cleeve BS49 4PH
Received 16 Oct 2023Unit A, Estune Business Park Wild Country Lane Long Ashton
Received 13 Oct 20235 Highdale Avenue Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7LZ
Received 16 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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