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.
10,400 approved · 1,247 refused · 664 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Piggots Chelvey Batch Brockley BS48 3AP
Received 22 Jul 20257 Anson Road Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7DF
Received 22 Jul 202562 Flax Bourton Road Failand BS8 3UN
Received 22 Jul 202519 South Lawn Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 8AD
Received 22 Jul 2025Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 17 Jul 202554 Conference Avenue Portishead BS20 7LF
Received 22 Jul 202550 Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2EE
Received 23 Jul 20256 Coronation Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0PQ
Received 23 Jul 2025Wells Wood Banwell Woods Towerhead Road Banwell
Received 23 Jul 2025Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 23 Jul 2025Wyndham West Street Banwell BS29 6DE
Received 23 Jul 202524A Cecil Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2NT
Received 23 Jul 2025Land To North West Of Thatchers Cider Factory Station Road Sandford
Received 23 Jul 2025Cherrywood Backwell Hill Road Backwell BS48 3EL
Received 23 Jul 20255 Edgarley Court Wellington Terrace Clevedon BS21 7PR
Received 23 Jul 20256 Lampton Road Long Ashton BS41 9AQ
Received 23 Jul 20252 Brownlow Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4LS
Received 23 Jul 20251 Woodmill Yatton BS49 4QG
Received 23 Jul 202524 Green Pastures Road Wraxall BS48 1ND
Received 23 Jul 2025Stonecroft Day Nursery 11 High Street Yatton BS49 4JD
Received 24 Jul 2025Former Wagon And Horses Site Potters Hill Felton BS40 9XB
Received 24 Jul 2025Chiltern Wood Brockley Combe Road Backwell
Received 24 Jul 2025Harrys Barn East Hewish Lane Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6RZ
Received 24 Jul 20258 Farlers End Nailsea BS48 4PG
Received 24 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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