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.
10,309 approved · 1,234 refused · 655 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2019 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Rayens Cross Road Long Ashton BS41 9EA
Received 14 Jul 2025Winterwood Rectory Road Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0QB
Received 14 Jul 2025Land South Of Somerset Avenue Weston-super-Mare
Received 14 Jul 2025Land At Sheephouse Park And South Of Sewage Treatment Works Marsh Lane Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0TD
Received 14 Jul 20257 Littlefields Road Banwell BS29 6BH
Received 15 Jul 20252 Eastfield Park Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PE
Received 15 Jul 2025Devonshire House Blackmoor Langford BS40 5HJ
Received 15 Jul 20252 Lodge Drive Long Ashton BS41 9JF
Received 15 Jul 20253 The Old School Close Churchill Winscombe BS25 5LX
Received 15 Jul 2025Beech House Church Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PG
Received 15 Jul 202543 St Marks Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 7PL
Received 15 Jul 2025120 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LS
Received 15 Jul 2025120 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LS
Received 15 Jul 2025Land At University Of Bristol Langford Campus Stock Lane Langford Churchill BS40 5DU
Received 15 Jul 20253 Old Church Road Clevedon BS21 6LZ
Received 15 Jul 2025Land East Of Scot Elm Drive Weston-super-Mare
Received 15 Jul 20255 The Maples Cleeve
Received 15 Jul 2025Backwell C Of E Junior Church Lane Backwell BS48 3JJ
Received 16 Jul 2025Gatesgarth House High Street Wrington BS40 5QA
Received 16 Jul 2025Gatesgarth House High Street Wrington BS40 5QA
Received 16 Jul 2025East Terminal Building Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 16 Jul 202515 Chesham Road South Weston-super-Mare BS22 8LH
Received 16 Jul 2025McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Weston Links Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3YS
Received 16 Jul 202556 Bishops Road Cleeve BS49 4NG
Received 16 Jul 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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