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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.
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North Somerset planning applications
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
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates18,449Searchable applications
487Recorded as pending
89%Approval rate · 14,111 approved or refused records
1,522Refused applications
12,589 approved · 1,522 refused · 844 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Search for a planningapplicationContact planning Report a breach of planningLocal plan Planning policyPre-application advice Book our pre-application advice
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
Conservation areas39 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areas37 mapped area records0 identified HMO area records; remaining records unclassified
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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.
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More application records
- Decided25/P/2547/AOC
Request to Discharge Condition 6 (Parking Demand and Capacity) from application 18/P/5118/OUT.
Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DP
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2548/AOC
Request to partially discharge conditions 8 (Large Scale Details) and 9 (Material Samples) from Phase 1 of application 25/P/1496/FU2.
Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2549/TRCA
T1 - Silver Birch at the front of the property - reduce in height by 3.5 metres and in width by 2 metres around the circumference of tree.
St Martins View St Martins Long Ashton BS41 9HP
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Unknown25/P/2550/TPO
Birch - Reduce by 25% (2-2.5m). Apple Reduce by 3m height and sides by 1-2m to shape. Ash - Remove
Pembroke House Abbots Leigh Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PX
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2551/FUL
Proposed Change of Use of existing Annexe to form 1no. Dwelling.
Myrtle Cottage Wick Road Wick St Lawrence Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YJ
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2552/AOC
Request to discharge conditon 3 (Construction and Environmental Management Plan) on application 25/P/1917/FUL.
24 Grenville Avenue Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 8AR
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2553/HHPA
Prior approval request for the erection of a single storey rear extension with a pitched roof that would 1) extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by 4.00 metres; 2) have a maximum height of 3.90 metres and 3) have eaves that are 2.40 metres high.
1 Willow Close Long Ashton BS41 9DT
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Awaiting decision25/P/2554/AOC
Request to discharge conditions 2 (Replacement Bat Roost), 3 (Refuge collection points), 4 (Management and maintenance), 5 (Proposed floor levels), 6 (Flood Warning Evacuation Plan) and 8 (New Barn Owl Nesting Box) from application 23/P/0238/RM.
Land At Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 9 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2555/NMA
Non-material Amendment to application 25/P/1562/FUL (Proposed conversion and extension of the existing loft with a flat roof rear dormer and erection of a new dual pitched dormer to the front elevation to match the existing. Enlargement of the rear bedroom window and installation of 2no. new side windows with obscured glazing. Erection of a new rear glazed porch with an additional window to the utility room and a new double front door. Relocation of 2no. skylights of the front in loft area.) to allow for alterations to the window and door styles and placement, and installation of a ventilation extractor.
Flat 3 42C Walliscote Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XF
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2556/FUL
Reconstruction of existing redundant stone storage barn, erection of a front porch and extension to first floor and conversion to 1no. dwelling
Barn At Capenor Court Orchard 47 St Marys Road Portishead
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2557/AOC
Request to Discharge Condition 28 (Remediation Validation Report) from application 16/P/2758/RG4.
Land To The South Of Locking Head Drove Locking
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2558/AOC
Request to discharge condition 17 (Secure cycle parking) on application 20/P/1847/OUT.
Land West Of Rodney Road Backwell
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2559/TPO
Trees at Pier Road and Leigh View Road junction. Tree 962 (Lime) in attached Arb report - see site plan attached. TPO consent to be established: TPO Number: 168. Date TPO made:24/02/1978. TPO Address: Power Station, Portishead. Conservation Area. REGISTRATION DATE: 09/03/1993 Portishead East Wood. Report recommendations ? reduce regrowth back to trunk. Trees at Pier Road and Leigh View Road junction. Group 5: 3626 to 3631 in attached Arb report - see site plan attached. TPO Number: 168. Date TPO made:24/02/1978. TPO Address: Power Station, Portishead. Report recommendations - Re-pollard and deadwood 5x Populus nigra ?italica? (3626, 3628 and 3630 are subjects to pre-works bat inspection)
Street Record Leigh View Road Portishead
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2560/LDE
Certificate of lawfulness for building operations comprising of:- the complete removal of the existing roof structure and all existing external roofing materials, remedial works to repair damage to existing external walls and installation of a new roof structure and new external roofing materials.
Potters Shed Land North Of The White House Potters Hill Felton
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2561/MOD
Deed of Variation to Section 106 Agreement dated 24 September 2019 relating to planning permission 16/P/1677/OT2. Change is required is to enable NSAH Alliance Homes Ltd to use the model AHP 2021 to 2026 Shared Ownership house lease (October 2023) which contains a CPI based rent review provision
Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2562/FUL
Proposed demolition of 2no. existing buildings; change of use of the car workshop to Use Class E (g)(iii) Industrial processes use and erection of 1no. self-build dwelling and detached carport with associated access, landscaping and ecological enhancements
Land At OS Plot 5134 & Churchill Cars Ltd Honeyhall Lane Congresbury BS49 5JX
Received 10 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2563/AOC
Request to discharge condition 3 (CEMP) from application 24/P/1907/FUL.
Birnbeck Pier Birnbeck Island Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2564/FUH
Removal of 2no. existing storage containers and proposed erection of a single storey purpose built storage/workshop building.
The Pump House Land Off Kingston Lane Winford BS40 8DA
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2565/DCW
Application to discharge requirements 4 (Submission and approval of detail design), 11 (Surface and foul water drainage), 14 (security fencing in the Avon Gorge Woodlands SAC) and 24 (Permanent fencing outside of Avon Gorge Woodlands SAC) for Stage 1 of Works No. 1, 1A, 14 and 14, and Stage 4 of Works No.1B, 1C and Stage 6 of the Portishead Branch Line (MetroWest Phase 1) Order 2022
Portishead Branch Line, Between Portishead In North Somerset And Ashton Junction, Bristol
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2566/FUH
Proposed conversion of the existing Attic to a bedroom, dressing room and en-suite with 2no. pitched roof dormers and 1no. flat roof dormer.
Tor Na Coille Strawberry Hill Clevedon BS21 6AF
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2567/FUH
Proposed erection of a single storey rear extension and 1no. flat roof rear dormer. Installation of external insulation / render and timber over cladding to the existing porch. Installation of new rooflights and windows together with new Solar panels and installation of an Air source heat pump to the East (side) elevation.
10 Heath Ridge Long Ashton BS41 9EW
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2568/AOC
Request to discharge condition 11 (Construction Environmental Management Plan) on application 24/P/2289/FUL.
Mead Farm Mead Lane Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RG
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2569/TRCA
T1: Apple. Fell to ground level tree in decline evidence of honey fungus.. T2: Laburnum. Fell to ground level tree in decline evidence of honey fungus. T3: Pittosporum. Crown reduce by up to 2 metres. T4:Pittosporum. Crown reduce by up to 2 metres and remove damaged / split leader.
4 High Street Banwell BS29 6AA
Received 11 Dec 2025 - Decided25/P/2570/TPO
T1 and T2 (Crab Apple): Crown reduction by up to 1.5m back to outer pruning points.
5 Fitzharding Road Pill BS20 0EH
Received 12 Dec 2025
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What these statistics cover
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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