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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
13,027 approved · 1,572 refused · 887 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Sept 2018 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land To The West And East Of The Strawberry Line Brinsea Road Congresbury
Received 27 Jan 2026Sand Farm Camping Sand Farm Lane Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UF
Received 27 Jan 2026Banwell Youth And Community Centre West Street Banwell
Received 27 Jan 2026Banwell Youth And Community Centre West Street Banwell
Received 27 Jan 2026Land To The West Of 43 The Paddock Portishead
Received 27 Jan 2026Footpath Of Engine Lane Blackfriars Road Nailsea BS48 4DJ
Received 27 Jan 2026Uphill Grange Nursing Home Uphill Road South Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TX
Received 27 Jan 2026Upton Farm Upton Lane Dundry BS41 8NS
Received 27 Jan 202615 Crewkerne Close Nailsea BS48 2SN
Received 28 Jan 202611 Quantock Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4DN
Received 28 Jan 2026Land West Of Station Road Blagdon
Received 28 Jan 2026Land Adjacent To 7 Portland Close Nailsea BS48 2QP
Received 28 Jan 202620 Oakleigh Close Backwell BS48 3JU
Received 28 Jan 2026The Old Orchard Newlands Hill Portishead BS20 6AZ
Received 28 Jan 2026Opposite 24 Cleeve Hill Road Chapel Lane Cleeve
Received 28 Jan 2026Land East Of Failand Weston Road Failand BS8 3US
Received 28 Jan 202663 Brock End Portishead BS20 8LS
Received 28 Jan 202612 Marindin Drive Weston-super-Mare BS22 7UT
Received 29 Jan 20262 Woodside Road Clevedon BS21 7JY
Received 29 Jan 2026Dial House West Hay Road Wrington BS40 5NP
Received 29 Jan 2026Stones Cafe Knightstone Causeway Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AD
Received 29 Jan 2026Former Baths Building Knightstone Causeway Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AD
Received 29 Jan 2026Land Off The Portbury Hundreds Portbury
Received 29 Jan 20263 Lampton Road Long Ashton BS41 9AQ
Received 29 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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