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.
9,052 approved · 1,115 refused · 544 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Caffle Nursery Bristol Road Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6SE
Received 16 Jan 2025119 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3ER
Received 23 Jan 20251 Perry Road Long Ashton BS41 9FE
Received 23 Jan 202514 Stafford Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3BW
Received 23 Jan 2025The Shrubbery Highdale Farm Highdale Avenue Clevedon BS21 7LX
Received 23 Jan 2025Land At Chestnut Farm North End Road Yatton BS49 4AS
Received 23 Jan 202517 - 21 High Street Weston-super-Mare
Received 23 Jan 2025The Granary Shiplate Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0NY
Received 24 Jan 2025Avona Wood Banwell Woods Towerhead Road Banwell
Received 23 Jan 2025Land To The Rear Of 149 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton
Received 24 Jan 2025East End Farm Tickenham Road Clevedon BS21 6QY
Received 24 Jan 2025War Memorial High Street Yatton
Received 24 Jan 2025Glebelands Garden Church Road Yatton BS49 4HH
Received 24 Jan 2025Land At Moor Road Yatton
Received 24 Jan 202555 Saxon Court St Georges Weston-super-Mare BS22 7RG
Received 27 Jan 202563 Southfield Road Nailsea BS48 1JD
Received 27 Jan 202543 Wakedean Gardens Yatton BS49 4BN
Received 27 Jan 2025Land Adjacent To Ancarva House Ladymead Lane Langford
Received 27 Jan 2025Green Pastures Moor Lane Weston-super-Mare BS24 7LA
Received 27 Jan 2025Barn-05 OS Parcels 2064 And 3063 Greenhill Road Sandford
Received 27 Jan 202514 Walnut Close Weston-super-Mare BS24 9HB
Received 27 Jan 20254 Folleigh Drive Long Ashton BS41 9JD
Received 27 Jan 20253G Mast Telephone Exchange St Marks Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 27 Jan 202535 Whitecross Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1EN
Received 27 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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