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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.
9,017 approved · 1,112 refused · 539 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Quantock Road Portishead BS20 6DP
Received 17 Jan 2025Apple Tree Cottage Barrow Street Barrow Gurney BS48 3RY
Received 17 Jan 2025Nexus Resources Ltd. 139 High Street Portishead Bristol BS20 6PY
Received 17 Jan 202515 Canberra Crescent Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7DA
Received 17 Jan 2025Yatton Infant High Street Yatton Bristol BS49 4HJ
Received 17 Jan 202514 The Cottages Station Road Wrington BS40 5LH
Received 17 Jan 202520 Rippleside Portishead Bristol BS20 6NB
Received 20 Jan 202519 Sixty Acres Close Failand BS8 3UH
Received 20 Jan 2025360 Nore Road Portishead BS20 8EY
Received 20 Jan 20255 Plumtree Close Winscombe BS25 1HU
Received 20 Jan 202518 The Burrows St Georges Weston-super-Mare BS22 7RP
Received 20 Jan 202539 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9HW
Received 20 Jan 2025Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 20 Jan 2025Land Adjacent To The Grange Smallway Congresbury
Received 20 Jan 2025Land To The East Of Bleadon Hill Golf Club Off Roman Road Bleadon
Received 20 Jan 2025133 Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RF
Received 20 Jan 202511 Wood Hill Park Portishead BS20 7DR
Received 21 Jan 2025Land West Of The Hollows Chapel Pill Lane Pill BS20 0HJ
Received 21 Jan 2025Congresbury Arms High Street Congresbury BS49 5JA
Received 21 Jan 2025Congresbury Arms High Street Congresbury BS49 5JA
Received 21 Jan 202539-41 Old Church Road Clevedon BS21 6NP
Received 21 Jan 20251 Brackenwood Road Clevedon BS21 7AB
Received 21 Jan 2025Uphill Marine Centre Campsite Uphill Wharf Uphill Way Uphill
Received 21 Jan 2025Banwell Bypass Land To North And East Of Banwell Including Mitigation Highway Land In Sandford, Winscombe And Churchill
Received 21 Jan 2025Records 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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