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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.
10,086 approved · 1,205 refused · 643 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Taylors Fields Banwell North Somerset BS29 6AJ
Received 18 Jun 2025Bridge House Farm Claverham Drove Lower Claverham BS49 4PX
Received 18 Jun 2025Honnalee Broad Street Wrington BS40 5LA
Received 18 Jun 20257 Marsh Lane Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0ND
Received 18 Jun 2025All Saints Cottage Strawberry Hill Clevedon BS21 6AF
Received 18 Jun 20252 Ellenborough Park South Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XW
Received 19 Jun 202515 Ellenborough Park North Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XQ
Received 19 Jun 20252 New Cottages Rhodyate Blagdon BS40 7TP
Received 19 Jun 2025Yatton Infant High Street Yatton BS49 4HJ
Received 19 Jun 20259 Linkside Clevedon BS21 7DD
Received 19 Jun 2025Yew Tree Cottage The Batch Butcombe BS40 7UX
Received 19 Jun 2025Coleridge Cottage 40 St Marys Road Portishead BS20 6QW
Received 19 Jun 2025The Coach House 2 Hilliers Lane Churchill BS25 5NA
Received 19 Jun 202549 The Avenue Clevedon BS21 7DZ
Received 19 Jun 202578 Ridgeway Road Long Ashton BS41 9HA
Received 19 Jun 20251 Quantock Road Portishead BS20 6DR
Received 19 Jun 2025Telephone Exchange Boulevard Weston-super-Mare BS23 1PQ
Received 19 Jun 2025Land At Highridge Farm Oxleaze Lane Dundry BS41 8JZ
Received 19 Jun 2025Engine Forge Bath Road Langford BS40 5DJ
Received 19 Jun 2025Woodrising Brockley Lane Brockley BS48 4AY
Received 19 Jun 202512 Valley Gardens Nailsea BS48 2JD
Received 20 Jun 20252 Castlewood Close Clevedon BS21 7HS
Received 20 Jun 2025Leigh Court Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RA
Received 20 Jun 20257 Quantock Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4DN
Received 20 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.
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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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