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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
12,213 approved · 1,460 refused · 802 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Penrice Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9AH
Received 17 Oct 2025Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea
Received 15 Oct 2025Land At Bristol Water Tower Clevedon Road Failand
Received 16 Oct 202511 Sandford Road Winscombe BS25 1JA
Received 17 Oct 2025Ploverfield Bath Road Burrington BS40 5DQ
Received 17 Oct 2025Land At Wyndhurst Farm Langford Road Langford Chuchill BS40 5HY
Received 17 Oct 2025Parcel H16 , Haywood Village Weston Airfield Weston-super-Mare
Received 17 Oct 20252 Manor Cottages Clevedon Road Walton-in-Gordano BS21 7AN
Received 17 Oct 202593 Weston Road Long Ashton BS41 9AE
Received 15 Oct 2025Land To The East Of The Granary Chapel Pill Lane Pill BS20 0HL
Received 17 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To 1 And Opposite 3 Park Cottages Barrow Court Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3RR
Received 17 Oct 2025Land At Caswell Hill Portbury
Received 17 Oct 2025Land To The South Of Bristol Road Churchill
Received 17 Oct 2025Land To The South Of Bristol Road Churchill
Received 17 Oct 2025Axnfell 24 Woodhill Avenue Portishead BS20 7EX
Received 17 Oct 20256 Dipland Grove Bath Road Blagdon BS40 7SF
Received 20 Oct 202531 Victoria Road Clevedon BS21 7RU
Received 20 Oct 2025Land East Of Riverside Holiday Park Bridgwater Road Bleadon
Received 20 Oct 202563 Westward Drive Pill BS20 0JW
Received 20 Oct 20251 The Hamlet Nailsea BS48 1BY
Received 20 Oct 2025Land Opposite Capri Villas Upper Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 16 Oct 2025Land Outside The Cliffs Upper Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2ES
Received 16 Oct 2025Holly Hedge Sanctuary Wild Country Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3SE
Received 20 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To 8 Lower Knowles Road Clevedon
Received 20 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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