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.
9,292 approved · 1,136 refused · 566 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2/3 Fircliff Park Portishead BS20 7HQ
Received 27 Feb 202512 Backwell Hill Road Backwell BS48 3PL
Received 28 Feb 202526 Whitecross Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1EW
Received 28 Feb 2025128 St Marys Grove Nailsea BS48 4NJ
Received 28 Feb 202561 North Street Nailsea BS48 4BS
Received 3 Mar 20251 Fosse Barton Nailsea BS48 2BW
Received 3 Mar 202558B Church Lane Backwell BS48 3JH
Received 3 Mar 202574 Kenn Road Clevedon BS21 6EX
Received 3 Mar 2025East Terminal Building Bristol International Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 3 Mar 2025Land To The West Of Orchard Bank Stables Streamcross Claverham
Received 3 Mar 2025Roselands Weston Lane Christon BS26 2XT
Received 3 Mar 202511 Yeoward Road Clevedon BS21 5AT
Received 3 Mar 2025Victoria Methodist Church Station Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XU
Received 3 Mar 2025Middlecombe Nursery Wrington Road BS49 5AN
Received 3 Mar 20252 And 4 Marsh Road Yatton BS49 4EF
Received 3 Mar 20251 Fosse Barton Nailsea Bristol BS48 2BW
Received 4 Mar 2025Uporchard The Street Regil BS40 8BB
Received 4 Mar 20254 New Site Church Road Redhill Wrington BS40 5SQ
Received 4 Mar 202546 Hillcrest Road Portishead BS20 8HP
Received 4 Mar 2025Somerset Court Stock Lane Langford Congresbury BS49 5JL
Received 4 Mar 2025106 High Street Yatton BS49 4DW
Received 4 Mar 2025The Bungalow Court Lane Clevedon BS21 6TE
Received 4 Mar 2025Manor Farm Littleton Lane Winford BS40 8HF
Received 4 Mar 2025Land At Farleigh Fields And 54 And 56 Farleigh Road Backwell
Received 12 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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