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.
9,569 approved · 1,156 refused · 593 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DP
Received 24 Apr 202522 Hill Drive Failand BS8 3UX
Received 24 Apr 2025Marine Lake Knightstone Causeway Weston-super-Mare
Received 24 Apr 2025Land South Of Bristol Road And North Of Bath Road Churchill
Received 24 Apr 20255 Rose Hill Portishead BS20 6BF
Received 24 Apr 20252 New Cottages Rhodyate Blagdon Bristol BS40 7TP
Received 25 Apr 2025Land On South Side Of Bransby Way West Of Heron Moor School Weston-super-Mare BS24 7BW
Received 25 Apr 2025Land At Moorside Farm Station Road Backwell
Received 25 Apr 20258 The Cottages Station Road Wrington BS40 5LH
Received 25 Apr 202521 Clevedon Road Flax Bourton BS48 1NQ
Received 25 Apr 2025The Old Abattoir Nailsea Wall Lane Nailsea
Received 25 Apr 202530 Kings Road Clevedon BS21 7EN
Received 25 Apr 202550 Edward Road Clevedon BS21 7DT
Received 25 Apr 2025Manor Farm Wick Lane West Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6RR
Received 25 Apr 202517 Dundry Lane Dundry BS41 8JH
Received 25 Apr 202592 Elm Tree Road Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 8EJ
Received 28 Apr 202536 Manor Gardens Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9XU
Received 28 Apr 2025Slade Barns Shiplate Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0NY
Received 28 Apr 202556 Ashcombe Gardens Weston-super-Mare BS23 2XH
Received 28 Apr 2025Flat 2 51 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PX
Received 28 Apr 202511 Brean Down Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JH
Received 28 Apr 2025Flat 2 80 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RS
Received 28 Apr 2025The New House Shrubbery Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2JH
Received 28 Apr 2025Hedgerow Located Between Cattlemarket Business Park And Littleton Lane Winford
Received 28 Apr 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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