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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
12,106 approved · 1,447 refused · 788 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Land To The East Of Scot Elm Drive Weston-super-Mare
Received 2 Oct 2025335 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3LY
Received 3 Oct 202512 Glebe Road Long Ashton BS41 9LH
Received 3 Oct 2025Birnbeck Villa 10 Upper Kewstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2ER
Received 3 Oct 2025Rosemont Church Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PG
Received 3 Oct 2025Rear Of 4 Kenn Road Clevedon BS21 6EL
Received 6 Oct 20256 Bowden Way Failand BS8 3XA
Received 6 Oct 20258 Elmsleigh Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JN
Received 6 Oct 2025Green Opposite 2 Eastfield Park Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PE
Received 6 Oct 202510 Queens Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 6 Oct 2025Haywood Park Roman Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0AD
Received 6 Oct 2025Graham House 20 Graham Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1YA
Received 6 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To 93 Providence Lane Long Ashton BS41 9DL
Received 6 Oct 20258 Estune Walk Long Ashton BS41 9EP
Received 6 Oct 202566A Clifton Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1BW
Received 6 Oct 202572 Nore Road Portishead BS20 8DU
Received 6 Oct 20257 Robinson Close Backwell BS48 3BT
Received 6 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Sutherland Cars Showroom Chew Road Winford BS40 8HB
Received 7 Oct 20258 Heathfield Way Nailsea BS48 1ED
Received 7 Oct 202520C Devonshire Drive Portishead BS20 8EF
Received 7 Oct 2025Land At Moor View Clevedon Road Weston-in-Gordano BS20 8PZ
Received 19 Sept 2025Higher Farm Granary Portbury Lane Wraxall BS20 7SN
Received 7 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Elsbert Drive Bristol BS13 8AL
Received 7 Oct 202539 Monks Hill Weston-super-Mare BS22 9RQ
Received 7 Oct 2025Records 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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