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.
9,986 approved · 1,194 refused · 637 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Land At Long Stay Car Park Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington
Received 6 Jun 202538 Worlebury Hill Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9SU
Received 6 Jun 202519 The Triangle Clevedon BS21 6NQ
Received 6 Jun 202524 Well Close Winscombe BS25 1HQ
Received 6 Jun 202534 Beechwood Avenue Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 8DS
Received 9 Jun 202546 North Street Nailsea BS48 4BS
Received 9 Jun 20256/7 Claremont Crescent Weston-super-Mare
Received 9 Jun 20256/7 Claremont Crescent Weston-super-Mare
Received 9 Jun 20251 Paddock Rise Nailsea BS48 4AX
Received 9 Jun 202510 Blenheim Way Portishead BS20 6YY
Received 9 Jun 2025Lime Trees Barton Road Winscombe BS25 1DX
Received 9 Jun 20253 Beach Road West Portishead Bristol BS20 7HR
Received 9 Jun 2025Trelleck Nye Road Sandford BS25 5QD
Received 9 Jun 202569 Cambridge Road Clevedon BS21 7BN
Received 9 Jun 2025Sand Bay Farm 116 Beach Road Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UG
Received 9 Jun 2025Land Rear Of Hurnes Hayes Frog Lane Felton
Received 9 Jun 202521 Woodview Drive Cleeve BS49 4NN
Received 10 Jun 2025Pavement O/S 300 Down Road Portishead BS20 8JT
Received 10 Jun 2025120 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LS
Received 10 Jun 2025The Barn Sladacre Lane Blagdon BS40 7RP
Received 10 Jun 2025Land At Sheephouse Park And South Of Sewage Treatment Works Marsh Lane Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0TD
Received 10 Jun 2025Mendip Model Motor Racing Club Accommodation Road Bleadon BS24 0AP
Received 10 Jun 202542 Westward Drive Pill BS20 0JP
Received 11 Jun 20252 Myrtle Gardens Yatton BS49 4BA
Received 11 Jun 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage