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.
10,358 approved · 1,241 refused · 662 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sloughpitt Farm 66 Sandford Road Winscombe BS25 1JF
Received 16 Jul 2025Land To The South Of Bristol Road Churchill
Received 17 Jul 2025Land East Of Moor Road Banwell
Received 17 Jul 2025Apartment 45 42 Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2BU
Received 17 Jul 202527 Church Close Yatton BS49 4HG
Received 18 Jul 202549 Elmsleigh Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JW
Received 18 Jul 202559 Hillcrest Road Portishead BS20 8HN
Received 18 Jul 2025131 Kenn Road Clevedon BS21 6JY
Received 18 Jul 2025Flat 4 Highbury Court Highbury Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DR
Received 18 Jul 202527 Penrice Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9AH
Received 18 Jul 202526 Whitecross Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1EW
Received 18 Jul 2025Near Clapton Farm Moor Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RF
Received 16 Jul 2025Moor Lane Clapton-in-Gordano
Received 16 Jul 2025Near 1 Swancombe And 7 Morgans Buildings Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RR
Received 16 Jul 2025Rise 1 Harris Lane Abbots Leigh BS8 3QX
Received 18 Jul 202522 Riverleaze Portishead BS20 8EA
Received 21 Jul 2025Red Gables High Street Blagdon BS40 7TQ
Received 21 Jul 20252 Mendip View Hodders Lane Wick St Lawrence Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YG
Received 21 Jul 2025Le Frye House Nailsea Court Chelvey Road Chelvey BS48 4DL
Received 21 Jul 2025184 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3LU
Received 21 Jul 20255 Tower Walk Weston-super-Mare BS23 2JR
Received 21 Jul 202515 Chipping Cross Clevedon BS21 5JG
Received 21 Jul 20252 And 4 Marsh Road Yatton BS49 4EF
Received 21 Jul 2025Piggots Chelvey Batch Brockley BS48 3AP
Received 22 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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