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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12,273 approved · 1,472 refused · 805 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Harbour Crescent Portishead
Received 4 Nov 20253 Jacklands Cottages Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6SG
Received 5 Nov 2025Phase 8 And 10 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 5 Nov 20259 Greenfield Park Portishead BS20 6RG
Received 5 Nov 2025Land At Bourton Piggeries Wick Road Wick St Lawrence Puxton BS22 7YD
Received 4 Nov 2025Banwell Bypass Land To North And East Of Banwell Including Mitigation Highway Land In Sandford, Winscombe And Churchill
Received 5 Nov 20253 The Croft Clevedon BS21 6AT
Received 6 Nov 2025175 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3HE
Received 6 Nov 2025Upton Farm Upton Lane Dundry BS41 8NS
Received 6 Nov 2025Plantation And Bluebell Field Uphill Road South Uphill
Received 6 Nov 2025Ravenswood School Pound Lane Nailsea BS48 2NN
Received 6 Nov 2025Land West Of Pill Road Abbots Leigh
Received 6 Nov 2025Land At Coombs Travel Searle Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 3YX
Received 6 Nov 2025Rural Building On Track Off Wrington Hill Wrington
Received 7 Nov 2025Moorside Farm Kennmoor Road Kenn Clevedon BS21 6UB
Received 7 Nov 2025Copse Road Chapel Seavale Road Clevedon BS21 7QB
Received 7 Nov 2025Norton Lodge Brinsea Batch Congresbury BS49 5JP
Received 7 Nov 202515 Towerhead Road Banwell BS29 6PQ
Received 7 Nov 2025Purn Farm Industrial Estate Accommodation Road Bleadon BS24 0AN
Received 10 Nov 2025Elmleigh Farm Back Lane Kingston Seymour BS21 6UZ
Received 10 Nov 202530 Felton Lane Winford BS40 8AF
Received 10 Nov 2025Building At Rusling House Yewtree Batch Butcombe BS40 7XQ
Received 10 Nov 202585 High Street Nailsea BS48 1AW
Received 10 Nov 2025The Snug, Rear Of 27 Clevedon Road Portishead BS20 6TF
Received 10 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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