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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12,699 approved · 1,531 refused · 853 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Ground Floor Flat 50 Ashcombe Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3DY
Received 18 Dec 202518 Four Acres Close Nailsea BS48 4YF
Received 19 Dec 202513A Orchard Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1RG
Received 19 Dec 202517 Wooler Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3AR
Received 19 Dec 2025Marketing Suite Adj To Haywood Village Academy Whitney Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS24 8ES
Received 19 Dec 2025Hinkley Point C Connection Project, Between Bridgwater In Somerset And Seabank Substation, North Of Avonmouth
Received 19 Dec 2025Overmyst Tower House Lane Wraxall BS48 1JX
Received 19 Dec 2025Land To The West And East Of The Strawberry Line Brinsea Road Congresbury
Received 19 Dec 2025106 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2TN
Received 19 Dec 2025Land Off Mead Lane Sandford
Received 19 Dec 2025Four Winds Farm Brinsea Batch Congresbury BS49 5JP
Received 19 Dec 2025Fairoaks Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SA
Received 19 Dec 2025Land To The Rear Of 30 Henley Park Yatton BS49 4JH
Received 19 Dec 2025Oakmead Blagdon Lane Butcombe BS40 7UP
Received 22 Dec 2025Hillsborough House And Land Off Selworthy Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3SY
Received 22 Dec 20254 Council Houses Burrington Combe Blagdon BS40 7AS
Received 22 Dec 202516 Coleridge Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3UH
Received 22 Dec 2025Watersmeet Bath Road Blagdon BS40 7SE
Received 22 Dec 202533 Hardwick Road Pill BS20 0DB
Received 22 Dec 20257 Union Street Nailsea BS48 4BA
Received 22 Dec 2025Buttercliff Winscombe Hill Winscombe BS25 1DQ
Received 22 Dec 2025Land To North West Of Thatchers Cider Factory Station Road Sandford
Received 19 Dec 2025Land West Of Rodney Road Backwell
Received 22 Dec 202581 Church Lane Backwell BS48 3JL
Received 22 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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