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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official North Somerset website
12,172 approved · 1,455 refused · 800 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Outbuilding To The Rear Of 2-4 Upper Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 14 Oct 2025Land Off Dark Lane Backwell
Received 14 Oct 2025Apartment 1 6 Marine Hill Clevedon BS21 7PW
Received 14 Oct 202515 Severn Road Pill BS20 0BA
Received 14 Oct 202529 Cliff Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9SE
Received 14 Oct 2025Plantation Woods In Tyntesfield Estate Tyntesfield Wraxall BS48 1NZ
Received 15 Oct 2025Twin Cedars Meetinghouse Lane Claverham BS49 4PD
Received 15 Oct 2025Land Off Anson Road Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare
Received 15 Oct 202551 Stoneyfields Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0LL
Received 15 Oct 2025Yew Corner Walton Bay Walton-in-Gordano BS21 7AZ
Received 6 Oct 2025Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury
Received 16 Oct 2025Former Printworks Rear Of Mulberry Cottage Church Walk Wrington BS40 5QQ
Received 16 Oct 202590 Teignmouth Road Clevedon BS21 6DR
Received 16 Oct 2025Beech House Church Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PG
Received 16 Oct 2025Willow Farm Ebdon Lane Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YA
Received 16 Oct 202571 Brock End Portishead BS20 8LS
Received 16 Oct 2025Pavement Outside 46 Regent Street Weston-super-Mare
Received 16 Oct 2025Pavement Outside 46 Regent Street Weston-super-Mare
Received 16 Oct 2025Plot A7 Weston Business Quarter Plot Beaufighter Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 16 Oct 2025Skf Premises Strode Road Clevedon
Received 16 Oct 2025Broadfield Farm Winters Lane Redhill BS40 5SW
Received 16 Oct 20258 High Street Yatton BS49 4JA
Received 16 Oct 2025Land Near Kingdown Breeding Farm Kingdown Road BS40 8DP
Received 16 Oct 2025Rear Of 9 Meadow Villas Burlington Street Weston-super-Mare
Received 17 Oct 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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