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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
12,392 approved · 1,490 refused · 823 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hounsley View Pool Lane Winford BS40 8BP
Received 24 Nov 20251 Brackenwood Road Clevedon BS21 7AB
Received 25 Nov 20252 Farleigh Road Backwell BS48 3PA
Received 25 Nov 202537 Oakleigh Close Backwell BS48 3JX
Received 20 Nov 2025STREET RECORD Mayors Road Claverham North Somerset
Received 25 Nov 202567 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9HW
Received 25 Nov 2025Old Pound House Clevedon Road Weston-in-Gordano BS20 8PZ
Received 24 Nov 2025Land Off Dark Lane Backwell
Received 25 Nov 2025Land To Rear Of 27 The Lindens (Queensway West) Weston-super-Mare
Received 24 Nov 2025Highcroft Roman Road Bleadon BS24 0AB
Received 25 Nov 2025Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea
Received 25 Nov 202511 Church Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3QP
Received 25 Nov 20259 Worlebury Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 9RT
Received 25 Nov 20252 Eastfield Park Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PE
Received 26 Nov 2025Land West Of Ladymead Lane Ladymead Lane Langford
Received 26 Nov 20259 Ellenborough Park North Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XH
Received 26 Nov 2025Land Adj Coombe Farm Storage Sandford Road Winscombe
Received 26 Nov 202575 High Street Nailsea BS48 1AW
Received 26 Nov 20259 Ellenborough Park North Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XH
Received 26 Nov 20252 Westaway 4 High Street Yatton BS49 4JA
Received 26 Nov 202512 Sixty Acres Close Failand BS8 3UH
Received 27 Nov 2025Collum Farm Collum Lane Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9YX
Received 27 Nov 202558 Hillside Road Portishead BS20 8JR
Received 27 Nov 2025Kokomo Greenhill Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5PF
Received 27 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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