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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
12,936 approved · 1,565 refused · 876 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Yanleigh Close Bristol BS13 8AQ
Received 20 Jan 2026Beauleigh The Ripple Tickenham BS21 6SJ
Received 20 Jan 2026Churchyard All Saints Lane Clevedon BS21 6AU
Received 20 Jan 2026Churchyard All Saints Lane Clevedon BS21 6AU
Received 20 Jan 2026Parcels 2.1a, 2.1b, 2.2a And 2.2b At Parklands Churchland Way Weston-super-Mare
Received 20 Jan 2026Land At Collum Farm Collum Lane Kewstoke
Received 21 Jan 202617 Oxford Square Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7DP
Received 21 Jan 20264 Lawders Orchard Wrington BS40 5PD
Received 21 Jan 202637 Cadbury Farm Road Yatton BS49 4HW
Received 21 Jan 2026Land Off Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 21 Jan 2026Wrington C Of E Primary School Road Wrington BS40 5NA
Received 21 Jan 2026Land Off Shiplate Road Bleadon
Received 21 Jan 202616 Kenn Road Clevedon BS21 6EL
Received 21 Jan 2026Phase 8 And 10 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 22 Jan 2026Argentum Lodge 81 Silver Street Nailsea BS48 2DS
Received 22 Jan 2026Land Off Weir Lane Wraxall
Received 20 Jan 202676 Claverham Road Claverham BS49 4LD
Received 22 Jan 202679 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9HY
Received 22 Jan 202619 St Nicholas Road Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4XE
Received 22 Jan 2026Land At Weston Lodge Farm Off Coast Road Walton Bay Weston-in-Gordano
Received 21 Jan 202650 Beach Road Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UU
Received 23 Jan 2026Thatchers Cider Company Ltd Myrtle Farm Station Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RA
Received 23 Jan 2026Yew Tree Cottage The Batch Backwell BS48 3DL
Received 23 Jan 2026Airport Tavern Bristol Road Felton BS40 9XA
Received 23 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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