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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.
7,379 approved · 957 refused · 416 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Wansbrough Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 7SY
Received 3 Apr 2024Smallway Farm Smallway Congresbury BS49 5AA
Received 3 Apr 202432 Waterloo Street Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1LW
Received 3 Apr 202422 Bennetts Way Clevedon BS21 6AJ
Received 3 Apr 20248 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NG
Received 3 Apr 20247 Court Road Kewstoke BS22 9UT
Received 3 Apr 202443 Sidcot Lane Winscombe BS25 1LP
Received 3 Apr 2024Land Off Lower Norton Lane Kewstoke
Received 3 Apr 2024Dinghurst Cottage The Batch Churchill BS25 5PP
Received 3 Apr 2024Portishead Branch Line, Between Portishead in North Somerset and Ashton Junction, Bristol
Received 4 Apr 202449A Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PX
Received 4 Apr 2024Stepstones Farm Half Yard Langford BS40 5HS
Received 4 Apr 2024Phase 2 Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea North Somerset
Received 4 Apr 2024Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea North Somerset
Received 4 Apr 202421 Walnut Close Nailsea BS48 4YH
Received 5 Apr 2024Birchwood Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SA
Received 5 Apr 20249 Union Street Nailsea BS48 4BA
Received 3 Apr 2024Land To The South Of Locking Head Drove Locking
Received 4 Apr 2024Sud Building 22A Griffin Road Clevedon BS21 6HH
Received 4 Apr 20249 Beechwood Road Portishead BS20 8ER
Received 5 Apr 2024Kingshill Farmhouse 34 North Street Nailsea BS48 4BS
Received 5 Apr 2024Kingshill Farmhouse 34 North Street Nailsea BS48 4BS
Received 5 Apr 202414 Canberra Crescent Locking BS24 7DA
Received 8 Apr 2024Burwalls Lodge Burwalls Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PT
Received 8 Apr 2024Records 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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