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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.
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North Somerset planning applications
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
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates17,530Searchable applications
489Recorded as pending
89%Approval rate · 13,406 approved or refused records
1,426Refused applications
11,980 approved · 1,426 refused · 777 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Search for a planningapplicationContact planning Report a breach of planningLocal plan Planning policyPre-application advice Book our pre-application advice
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
Conservation areas39 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areas37 mapped area records0 identified HMO area records; remaining records unclassified
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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.
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More application records
- Decided25/P/1941/AOC
Request to discharge conditions 6 (Phasing Plan), 10 (Surface water strategy), 14 (Remediation Strategy), 16 (Construction Management Plan) and 19, (Construction Environment Management Plan, CEMP) on application 21/P/3368/OUT.
Weston Rugby Football Club Sunnyside Road North Weston-super-Mare BS23 3PA
Received 18 Sept 2025 - Registered25/P/1942/LBC
Listed building consent for the proposed erection of a two-storey extension to the west elevation.
East Lodge Winscombe Hill Winscombe BS25 1DH
Received 18 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1943/LDE
Certificate of Lawfulness to confirm that the defined area of land opposite Yew Tree Cottage has been in continuous use as part of the residential garden, within the domestic curtilage of Yew Tree Cottage for a period exceeding ten years.
Yew Tree Cottage The Batch Butcombe BS40 7UX
Received 18 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1944/TPO
T1 - English oak - Following partial fracture of lapsed pollard tree at the pollard head, reduce the length of the upright, central stems (approximately 6 stems) by 1.5m in length/height. Shape the remaining crown by reducing the remaining stems by 4m to 5m of their length to leave a balanced and attractive crown shape.
16 Long-thorn Backwell BS48 3GY
Received 18 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1945/TPO
T1 - Yew (Taxus baccata) Location: (Largest of two Yew trees under TPO 218) reduce by 1.5 meters, cutting back to the nearest suitable growth point.
14 Woodside Road Clevedon BS21 7JY
Received 19 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1946/FUH
Proposed conversion, extension and alteration of existing single storey side/rear extension to form livable space, including the creation of a front canopy.
14 Yeo Way Clevedon BS21 7UP
Received 19 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1947/AOC
Request to discharge condition 5 (Tree protection and method statement) on application 25/P/0778/FUL.
Deerhurst Farm Youngwood Lane Nailsea BS48 4NR
Received 19 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1948/FUH
Proposed loft conversion including the erection of a flat-roof front dormer and 2no. rear rooflights.
55 West Garston Banwell BS29 6EZ
Received 19 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1949/FUL
Replacement dwelling and detached outbuilding, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatment and gates, and associated works (retrospective).
Random The Ripple Tickenham BS21 6SJ
Received 19 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1950/FUH
Proposed erection of new fencing to the perimeter of the site together with new entrance gates, new stone walls and piers and a new recessed site entrance.
169 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9JQ
Received 19 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1951/TPO
T1 Monterey Cypress - rear garden - fell to ground level and replace
East Wing Old Rectory Christon Road Loxton BS26 2XG
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1952/TEN
Notification under Regulation 5 of the Electronic Communications Code of the intention to install fixed line broadband apparatus comprising of the installation of 1no. 8m light wooden pole. THIS IS NOT A PLANNING APPLICATION.
Pavement O/S 31 Old Banwell Road Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 8BT
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1953/AOC
Request to discharge condition 20 (Written Scheme of Investigation) from application 22/P/0459/OUT.
Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury BS49 5HD
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1954/NMA
Non material amendment application to planning permission 20/P/2000/R3 (Erection of 52no. new dwellings and one substation building, with the provision of car parking, landscaping and other associated works) to allow for the removal of tree planting along western boundary due to HV cable, provision of rear garden paths to plots 25-54 and reposition bin and bike stores to plots 20 and 23.
Land South Of The Uplands Nailsea
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1955/FUL
Replacement of caravan with erection of annexe accommodation
Greenacre Sandmead Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5QG
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1957/SCON
Consultation request from Marine Management Organisation on an application (MLA/2025/00364) for a licence under Part 4 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 for proposed Clevedon Seawall Revetment Repairs (Environment Agency)
Clevedon Seawall West Of Lower Strode Road Clevedon
Received 10 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1958/FUL
Proposed installation of PV solar panels on the flat roof of the main building.
8 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NG
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1959/AOC
Request to discharge conditions 32 (Contamination), 38 (External Surfaces Samples), 39 (Pathways Samples) from application 16/P/2744/OT2.
Meadfields Phase 6 Land At Parklands Churchland Way Weston-super-Mare
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1961/FUH
Proposed conversion of existing integral garage and single storey front extension.
45 Tetbury Gardens Nailsea BS48 2TL
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1962/TRCA
T1 Sycamore - 2m Crown Reduction.
7 Rose Hill Portishead BS20 6BF
Received 22 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1963/FUH
Proposed erection of a rear timber framed balcony structure to include a pergola and staircase. Alterations to the rear fenestration and re-configurations to the internal layout.
46 Ash Grove Clevedon BS21 7JZ
Received 23 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1964/TRCA
White Poplar (t1) Fell. Ash (T2) Crown lift to 2.5m. Hazel (T3) Crown reduce by 2m.
120 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LS
Received 23 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1965/TPO
Oak (T1) Crown reduce by 2m all round to ensure sufficient clearance from the adjacent properties.
3 Manor Way Failand BS8 3UY
Received 23 Sept 2025 - Decided25/P/1966/TEN
Notification under Regulation 5 of the Electronic Communications Code of the intention to install fixed line broadband apparatus comprising of the installation of 1no. light wooden pole. THIS IS NOT A PLANNING APPLICATION.
Pavement O/S 17 Willow Close Clevedon BS21 6HR
Received 22 Sept 2025
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What these statistics cover
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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