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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
12,854 approved · 1,554 refused · 862 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit B1, Quays Office Park Conference Avenue Portishead BS20 7LZ
Received 7 Jan 2026Land At Kenn Road Yatton
Received 7 Jan 2026Rownham House Rownham Hill Leigh Woods BS8 3PU
Received 7 Jan 2026Land To The North Of Barton Road Winscombe
Received 7 Jan 2026Grange Farmhouse Main Road Flax Bourton Bristol BS48 3QJ
Received 8 Jan 2026Mill Lane And Failand Lane Portbury
Received 5 Jan 2026Failand Lane Portbury
Received 5 Jan 2026Failand Lane Portbury
Received 5 Jan 202612 Albert Quadrant Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QY
Received 8 Jan 20269 Kew Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2NR
Received 8 Jan 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 8 Jan 20261 - 3 New Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6AD
Received 8 Jan 2026Land At Tumbling Weir Havyatt Road Wrington BS40 5PZ
Received 8 Jan 2026Barn South Of Clevedon Road Weston-in Gordano
Received 8 Jan 2026Cadbury Hall Care Home High Street Yatton BS49 4DW
Received 8 Jan 2026Rodmoor Battery Lane Portishead BS20 7JD
Received 8 Jan 2026Wintrath Bristol Road Winscombe BS25 1PR
Received 9 Jan 20266A Kings Road Clevedon BS21 7HA
Received 9 Jan 2026173 Claverham Road Claverham BS49 4LH
Received 9 Jan 202653 Oxford Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1TR
Received 9 Jan 2026School House Walton Street Walton-in-Gordano BS21 7AW
Received 9 Jan 202611 Upper Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2EP
Received 12 Jan 2026King George V Jubilee Playing Fields Stonewell Drive Congresbury BS49 5DW
Received 12 Jan 20265 Glebe Close Long Ashton BS41 9DB
Received 12 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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