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.
8,898 approved · 1,104 refused · 533 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Waterloo Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1LA
Received 20 Dec 2024Land To The South Of Bristol Road Churchill
Received 20 Dec 202431-33 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HD
Received 20 Dec 2024Land At Blagdon Water Garden Centre Bath Road Langford Churchill
Received 20 Dec 2024Land East Of Wolvershill Road Banwell
Received 20 Dec 2024Tropicana Marine Parade Weston-super-Mare BS23 1BE
Received 20 Dec 2024The Old Police House 3 Towerhead Road Banwell BS29 6PG
Received 20 Dec 2024Michael Burdge Ltd Arnolds Way Business Centre Arnolds Way Yatton
Received 20 Dec 2024Michael Burdge Ltd Arnolds Way Business Centre Arnolds Way Yatton
Received 20 Dec 2024Banwell Woods Towerhead Road Banwell
Received 20 Dec 2024Manor Farm Littleton Lane Winford Bristol BS40 8HF
Received 20 Dec 2024Land To The West Of A370 Bridgwater Road Bleadon
Received 20 Dec 2024Country View Caravan Park Sand Road Kewstoke BS22 9UJ
Received 23 Dec 2024Banwell Bypass Land To North And East Of Banwell Including Mitigation Highway Land In Sandford, Winscombe And Churchill
Received 23 Dec 20244 Bramley Rise Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6SS
Received 23 Dec 2024Land Off Bristol Road Wraxall
Received 20 Dec 20241 Frog Lane Felton BS40 9UN
Received 23 Dec 202423 Victoria Square Portishead BS20 6AQ
Received 23 Dec 2024The Moor Dairy Moor Road Banwell BS29 6ET
Received 23 Dec 2024Lulsgate House Bristol International Airport North Side Road Felton Bristol BS48 3AQ
Received 23 Dec 2024Land East Of Riverside Holiday Park Bridgwater Road Bleadon
Received 23 Dec 2024Bridge View House North Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PJ
Received 23 Dec 20244 Catemead Clevedon BS21 5JD
Received 23 Dec 2024Phase 8 And 10 Locking Parklands Locking Weston-super-Mare
Received 23 Dec 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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