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.
7,216 approved · 944 refused · 409 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Off Purn Way Bleadon BS24 0QF
Received 23 Oct 202312 Lower Kewstoke Road Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS22 9JF
Received 23 Oct 2023Land South Of Hillside Vicarage Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3RT
Received 23 Oct 202358B Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 2PT
Received 23 Oct 2023The Old Chapel The Street Regil BS40 8BD
Received 24 Oct 2023Valley Smoke House Elton Farm Wells Road Dundry BS41 8NQ
Received 23 Oct 2023Harbrow Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5BN
Received 23 Oct 2023Valley Smoke House Elton Farm Wells Road Dundry BS41 8NQ
Received 23 Oct 2023Valley Smoke House Elton Farm Wells Road Dundry BS41 8NQ
Received 23 Oct 20233 Maggies Cottages Cross Lanes Pill North Somerset BS20 0JJ
Received 24 Oct 2023370 Nore Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8EY
Received 24 Oct 20234 Ashford Drive Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS24 9NY
Received 23 Oct 20234A Woodside Gardens Portishead BS20 8EQ
Received 24 Oct 2023Flat 1 76 Clevedon Road Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1DF
Received 25 Oct 2023Burwalls Lodge Burwalls Road Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PT
Received 25 Oct 2023234 Down Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8HU
Received 25 Oct 2023Land To North Of Hanham Way Nailsea
Received 23 Oct 20233 Lime Tree Grove Pill North Somerset BS20 0HG
Received 25 Oct 2023Cannaways Farm Silver Moor Lane Banwell North Somerset BS29 6LQ
Received 25 Oct 2023Land Off Netherton Wood Lane Nailsea
Received 25 Oct 2023Myrtle Farm Station Road Sandford North Somerset BS25 5RA
Received 25 Oct 2023Land North And West Of Rose Bungalow Kennmoor Road Kenn
Received 26 Oct 2023Land Adjacent To Ruslin Farm Rusling Lane Butcombe
Received 26 Oct 202311A Church Town Backwell North Somerset BS48 3JQ
Received 25 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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