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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
12,699 approved · 1,531 refused · 853 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Sept 2018 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
44 Station Road Backwell BS48 3LN
Received 16 Dec 2025Holly Lodge Park Road Clevedon BS21 7JG
Received 16 Dec 2025Land Adjacent To Woodside Avenue Hutton
Received 16 Dec 2025Backwell School Station Road Backwell BS48 3BX
Received 16 Dec 20251 The Maples Nailsea BS48 4RT
Received 16 Dec 202511 Drakes Way Portishead BS20 6LB
Received 16 Dec 2025Rosewood Hillcote Weston-super-Mare BS24 9JS
Received 17 Dec 2025Pavement Outside The Lodge Beach Road Kewstoke
Received 16 Dec 2025Land To The North West Of Hewish North Of A370 Puxton
Received 17 Dec 202511 Conference Close Portishead BS20 7LX
Received 17 Dec 20252 Stonehenge Lane Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6SL
Received 17 Dec 2025Goblin Coombe Farm Winters Lane Redhill BS40 5SW
Received 17 Dec 2025Footpath Adjacent To 34 Conference Avenue Portishead BS20 7LF
Received 17 Dec 202514 Heath Ridge Long Ashton BS41 9EW
Received 17 Dec 2025Garden Cottage Long Lane Wrington BS40 5SA
Received 18 Dec 2025152 Main Road Cleeve BS49 4PP
Received 18 Dec 2025152 Main Road Cleeve BS49 4PP
Received 18 Dec 2025Mendip Garage And Garndiffaith Street End Blagdon BS40 7TL
Received 18 Dec 2025Land At Hilliers Lane Churchill
Received 18 Dec 2025Land Off Caswell Lane Clapton-in-Gordano
Received 18 Dec 20258 Folleigh Drive Long Ashton BS41 9JD
Received 18 Dec 2025Land At The Lynch Winscombe
Received 18 Dec 202525 High Street Yatton BS49 4JD
Received 18 Dec 202510 Rodmoor Road Portishead BS20 7HZ
Received 18 Dec 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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