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.
10,880 approved · 1,305 refused · 698 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
3 Glebe Close Long Ashton BS41 9DB
Received 12 Sept 2025Land At Hill Farm Off East Dundry Road Bristol BS14 0BW
Received 11 Sept 202513 Brean Down Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JH
Received 12 Sept 202563A Cambridge Road Clevedon BS21 7BN
Received 12 Sept 2025Tropicana Marine Parade Weston-super-Mare BS23 1BE
Received 12 Sept 2025Littlecote Burwalls Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PT
Received 12 Sept 2025Flats 20 - 28 Miles Close At Former Ham Green Hospital Ham Green, Pill Easton-in-Gordano
Received 11 Sept 202572 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PY
Received 12 Sept 202520 Totterdown Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4LJ
Received 12 Sept 20255 Alexandra Parade Weston-super-Mare BS23 1QS
Received 12 Sept 2025The Close Church Street Blagdon BS40 7SJ
Received 15 Sept 20251 - 3 New Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6AD
Received 15 Sept 202591A Severn Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1DS
Received 15 Sept 2025119 Church Road Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 9EL
Received 15 Sept 2025Barn To The South Of Roman Road Bleadon
Received 12 Sept 2025Cabletec Sunnyside Road North Weston-super-Mare BS23 3PZ
Received 15 Sept 20252 Limestone Way Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0AY
Received 15 Sept 202573 Woodacre Portishead BS20 7EH
Received 15 Sept 2025Land Adjacent To 32 Falcon Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS22 8RX
Received 15 Sept 202514 West Way Clevedon BS21 7XN
Received 16 Sept 2025Land At Butcombe Farm Aldwick Lane Butcombe
Received 16 Sept 2025Chicken Barn Cedar Farm Wick Road Wick St Lawrence
Received 16 Sept 2025East Wing Old Rectory Christon Road Loxton BS26 2XG
Received 16 Sept 2025Tesco High Street Nailsea BS48 1AU
Received 16 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.
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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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