Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
10,786 approved · 1,296 refused · 691 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Fairlea The Village Frys Lane Burrington BS40 7AD
Received 1 Sept 2025Blagdon Water Recycling Centre Station Road Blagdon
Received 2 Sept 2025Land Off St Peters Road Portishead
Received 2 Sept 2025Land North Of Meadowside Tower House Lane Wraxall BS48 1JP
Received 1 Sept 202513 Blackmoor Close Langford BS40 5HN
Received 2 Sept 2025114 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LS
Received 2 Sept 20253 Hillside Road Long Ashton BS41 9LG
Received 2 Sept 2025Clevedon School Valley Road Clevedon BS21 6AH
Received 2 Sept 2025Land To The West Of Elmsley Lane Kewstoke
Received 2 Sept 202518 Burden Park Clevedon BS21 7GB
Received 2 Sept 20259 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 2 Sept 2025Land And Building Off Bath Road Langford Churchill
Received 3 Sept 2025Fairoaks Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SA
Received 3 Sept 2025Plot A6, Land Off Dundry Lane Dundry
Received 3 Sept 2025The Manor 1 Castle Hill Banwell BS29 6BL
Received 3 Sept 2025Mead Vale Primary Kestrel Drive Weston-super-Mare BS22 8RQ
Received 2 Sept 20256 Charlcombe Rise Portishead BS20 8NB
Received 3 Sept 202541 High Street Portishead BS20 6AA
Received 4 Sept 202520 Plover Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 8XB
Received 4 Sept 2025147 Coleridge Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3UN
Received 4 Sept 2025Grove Farm Barns Bristol Road Winscombe BS25 1PW
Received 4 Sept 20258 Clarkson Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS22 8EJ
Received 4 Sept 2025Land North Of North Hill Farm East Dundry Lane Dundry
Received 4 Sept 202514 Winstones Road Barrow Gurney BS48 3AL
Received 4 Sept 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage