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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.
7,230 approved · 947 refused · 410 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Orchard Close Flax Bourton BS48 1UE
Received 2 Nov 202314 Orchard Close Wrington BS40 5ND
Received 2 Nov 20232 Heath Ridge Long Ashton BS41 9EW
Received 2 Nov 202360 Farleigh Road Backwell BS48 3PD
Received 2 Nov 202311 Frog Lane Felton North Somerset BS40 9UN
Received 2 Nov 2023Failand Farm Green Lane Failand BS8 3TR
Received 2 Nov 2023Failand Farm Green Lane Failand BS8 3TR
Received 2 Nov 2023Conygar Cottage Nortons Wood Lane Clevedon North Somerset BS21 7AE
Received 3 Nov 202322 Bennetts Way Clevedon BS21 6AJ
Received 3 Nov 2023Langford House Langford Road Langford North Somerset BS40 5DU
Received 3 Nov 2023Brinsea Green Farm Brinsea Lane Congresbury BS49 5JN
Received 1 Nov 2023168 Newfoundland Way Portishead North Somerset BS20 7PT
Received 2 Nov 202331 Beechwood Road Portishead North Somerset BS20 8ER
Received 3 Nov 2023Overton Court 1 Bracken Hill North Road Leigh Woods North Somerset BS8 3PL
Received 3 Nov 2023Lime Breach Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-In-Gordano North Somerset BS20 7SB
Received 3 Nov 2023Naish Farm Naish Hill Clapton-in-Gordano North Somerset BS20 7RZ
Received 3 Nov 20233 Christian Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 7TP
Received 3 Nov 202359 Kings Croft Long Ashton North Somerset BS41 9ED
Received 3 Nov 202320 Somerset Square Nailsea North Somerset BS48 1RQ
Received 3 Nov 2023Land South Of Dinghurst Road Churchill
Received 3 Nov 2023Land At Purn House Farm Purn Farm Bridgwater Road Bleadon
Received 3 Nov 20231 Hillside Gardens Weston-super-Mare North Somerset BS22 9QQ
Received 6 Nov 2023Old Rectory The Causeway Yatton North Somerset BS49 4HL
Received 6 Nov 2023Mill Barn 1 Mill Lane Wrington North Somerset BS40 5RA
Received 6 Nov 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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