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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
12,260 approved · 1,471 refused · 805 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Montpelier Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RH
Received 27 Oct 202530 Corondale Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8PX
Received 27 Oct 202525 Magdalen Way Weston-super-Mare BS22 7PG
Received 27 Oct 20256 Coronation Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0PQ
Received 27 Oct 202530 Silverstone Way Congresbury BS49 5ES
Received 27 Oct 202561 Hillside Road Portishead BS20 8JR
Received 27 Oct 2025Land Opposite Belvedere Common Lane Churchill BS25 5AU
Received 27 Oct 2025Pavement O/S 424 Nore Road Portishead BS20 8HA
Received 27 Oct 20251 Park Road Clevedon BS21 7JG
Received 27 Oct 2025Tanglewood Burwalls Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PT
Received 27 Oct 2025Land To The East Of Brockley Way Claverham Yatton
Received 28 Oct 2025Little Naish Naish Hill Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RZ
Received 28 Oct 2025Little Naish Naish Hill Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RZ
Received 28 Oct 2025Land To West Of Three Oak Stables Iwood Lane Congresbury
Received 28 Oct 2025Plot A7 Weston Business Quarter Plot Beaufighter Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 28 Oct 2025Land At Mead Farm Mead Lane Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RG
Received 28 Oct 20259 Wells Close Nailsea BS48 2SW
Received 28 Oct 2025Glen Orchy Lake Road Portishead BS20 7JA
Received 29 Oct 202569 Southfield Road Nailsea BS48 1SE
Received 29 Oct 2025Bruin Wood West Hill Wraxall BS48 1PN
Received 29 Oct 202548 Corondale Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8PY
Received 29 Oct 2025Meadfields Phase 6 Parklands Churchland Way Weston-super-Mare
Received 29 Oct 2025Annex Rusling House Yewtree Batch Butcombe
Received 29 Oct 2025Pavement O/S 19 Orchard Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1RG
Received 29 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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