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.
9,160 approved · 1,122 refused · 553 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Knightstone Theatre Knightstone Causeway Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AD
Received 10 Feb 2025Land Adjacent To Teddies Nursery Clanage Road Ashton Bristol BS3 2JX
Received 4 Feb 2025Land Off St Marks Road (opposite Greenhill Close) Weston-super-Mare
Received 6 Feb 2025Land At Long Stay Car Park Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington
Received 7 Feb 202551 Upper Church Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 10 Feb 2025Squares Church Road Dundry BS41 8LH
Received 10 Feb 2025Cadbury Garden And Leisure Smallway Congresbury BS49 5AA
Received 11 Feb 202521 Sunnymede Road Nailsea BS48 2NF
Received 11 Feb 2025Golden Sedge Street End Blagdon BS40 7TL
Received 12 Feb 2025Foye House Bridge Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PE
Received 12 Feb 2025Land Off Sanderling Place (to Rear Of 4 Sanderling Place) Portishead
Received 11 Feb 202554 Coleridge Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3UL
Received 12 Feb 202529 Main Road Cleeve BS49 4NS
Received 12 Feb 2025The Poplars Old Lane Tickenham BS21 6RZ
Received 12 Feb 2025185 Main Road Cleeve BS49 4PP
Received 12 Feb 20251 Barrow Road Hutton Weston-super-Mare BS24 9SZ
Received 12 Feb 2025Land South Of Wolvershill Road Banwell
Received 12 Feb 2025Snow Equipment Hangar Bristol International Airport North Side Road Felton
Received 12 Feb 2025Sycamore Queens Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LG
Received 12 Feb 202510B Ellenborough Park Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XJ
Received 13 Feb 202565 Dial Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7ER
Received 13 Feb 202534 Tennyson Avenue Clevedon BS21 7UJ
Received 13 Feb 2025Squires Cottage Walton Bay Walton-in-Gordano BS21 7AZ
Received 13 Feb 2025Rushmoor Grange Rushmoor Lane Backwell BS48 3BN
Received 13 Feb 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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