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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
12,273 approved · 1,472 refused · 805 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Balmoral Way Weston-super-Mare BS22 9AD
Received 30 Oct 2025Tanglewood Burwalls Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PT
Received 30 Oct 20257 Jubilee Path Weston-super-Mare BS22 8HR
Received 30 Oct 2025115 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9JE
Received 30 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Sutherland Cars Showroom Chew Road Winford
Received 30 Oct 2025Ashton Court Estate Ashton Court Long Ashton BS41 9JN
Received 30 Oct 2025Land To East Of Evelyn Cottage Clapton Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RE
Received 28 Oct 2025Land At Oldmixon Crescent (Site Of Former Praxair Surface Technology Building) Weston-super-Mare
Received 30 Oct 2025Valley Barn Caswell Lane Clapton-in-Gordano
Received 31 Oct 2025Rodmoor Battery Lane Portishead BS20 7JD
Received 31 Oct 2025Hares Park Havyatt Road Wrington BS40 5NL
Received 31 Oct 2025Grangewood House Manor Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RP
Received 31 Oct 202520 St Marys Grove Nailsea BS48 4NQ
Received 31 Oct 2025Wynscote Bristol Road Wraxall BS48 1LE
Received 3 Nov 2025Flat 8 Bay View Court 7 Atlantic Road South Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DE
Received 3 Nov 20254 Links Road Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4XX
Received 3 Nov 2025Springfield Naish Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3ST
Received 31 Oct 2025Land South Of Dolemoor Lane Congresbury
Received 29 Oct 202510 Hill Path Banwell BS29 6AB
Received 4 Nov 20252 High Street Nailsea BS48 1BS
Received 4 Nov 202513 Kingsley Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3TZ
Received 4 Nov 2025Area H22, Former Weston Airfield Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Nov 202551 Upper Church Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Nov 2025Land Surrounding And To The South And East Of Cheddar Reservoir Wedmore Road Cheddar Somerset BS27 3EH
Received 4 Nov 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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