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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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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
12,761 approved · 1,542 refused · 855 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Alburys And West Hay Road Wrington
Received 31 Dec 2025Land Off Chapel Pill Lane Opposite Rock Cottages Pill
Received 31 Dec 2025Flat 1 19 Atlantic Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DG
Received 2 Jan 20261 Rockleigh Beach Road West Portishead BS20 7HU
Received 2 Jan 202646 North Street Nailsea BS48 4BS
Received 5 Jan 202619 Church Close Yatton BS49 4HG
Received 5 Jan 202614 The Avenue Clevedon BS21 7ED
Received 5 Jan 202614 The Avenue Clevedon BS21 7ED
Received 5 Jan 2026Phase 4A Land At Parklands Churchland Way Weston-super-Mare
Received 5 Jan 20265 Short Way Failand BS8 3UF
Received 6 Jan 2026Blaise House Station Road Wrington BS40 5LG
Received 6 Jan 2026Flat 3 9 Ellenborough Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XL
Received 6 Jan 2026High Walls Watery Lane Nailsea BS48 2AX
Received 6 Jan 2026Pavement Outside 5-7 Bellevue Road Clevedon BS21 7NP
Received 5 Jan 2026105 High Street Portishead BS20 6PT
Received 6 Jan 202651 The Bramleys Portishead BS20 7LL
Received 6 Jan 20264 Backwell Hill Road Backwell BS48 3PL
Received 6 Jan 202664 High Street Portishead BS20 6EH
Received 6 Jan 202664 High Street Portishead BS20 6EH
Received 6 Jan 2026Deer Leap Farm Knightcott Road Banwell BS29 6HS
Received 7 Jan 2026Mill Farm Davis Lane Kenn BS21 6TG
Received 7 Jan 2026Electricity Substation (Adjacent To 30 Southlands Way) Southlands Way Congresbury
Received 6 Jan 202627 Theynes Croft Long Ashton BS41 9NA
Received 7 Jan 2026Coxhay Kenn Street Kenn BS21 6TN
Received 7 Jan 2026Records 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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