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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.
9,750 approved · 1,170 refused · 611 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Backwell Hill Road Backwell BS48 3PL
Received 14 May 202516 Elmsleigh Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JN
Received 14 May 2025101 Ebdon Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6US
Received 14 May 2025Hilberry Ladymead Lane Langford BS40 5ED
Received 14 May 2025Land South Of Bristol Road And North Of Bath Road Churchill
Received 14 May 20251 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7LN
Received 14 May 2025Land Adjacent To Woodside Avenue Hutton
Received 14 May 2025Four Winds Farm Brinsea Batch Congresbury BS49 5JP
Received 15 May 2025Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 15 May 202522 Market Avenue St Georges Weston-super-Mare BS22 7RB
Received 15 May 2025The Barn Mill Farm Station Road Flax Bourton BS48 1NG
Received 15 May 2025Land Adjoining Old Wall Accommodation Road Bleadon
Received 15 May 202528 Woodborough Road Winscombe BS25 1AD
Received 15 May 2025Curzon Cinema Old Church Road Clevedon BS21 6NN
Received 15 May 2025Ardmore Vicarage Road Leigh Woods Long Ashton BS8 3PH
Received 16 May 2025Mobile Phone Mast Oldmixon Crescent Car Park Oldmixon Crescent Weston-super-Mare
Received 15 May 202549 Weston Road Failand BS8 3UR
Received 16 May 2025Land West Of Ladymead Lane Ladymead Lane Langford
Received 16 May 2025Land West Of Ladymead Lane Ladymead Lane Langford
Received 16 May 2025Land And Building At Elm Tree Farm Nailsea Wall Lane Nailsea BS48 4DE
Received 16 May 2025Land At Naish Hill Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RZ
Received 16 May 202531 Arundell Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QG
Received 19 May 20253 Head Croft Flax Bourton BS48 1US
Received 19 May 20252 Manor View Manor Lane Abbots Leigh BS8 3RY
Received 19 May 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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