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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
12,172 approved · 1,455 refused · 800 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
168 Merlin Park Portishead BS20 8RW
Received 10 Oct 20252 Porlock Close Weston-super-Mare BS23 4RQ
Received 10 Oct 20258 Kingston Mead Winford BS40 8AS
Received 13 Oct 2025Former Worlebury Riding School 114 Worlebury Hill Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 13 Oct 2025Bylanes Pudding Pie Lane Langford BS40 5EL
Received 13 Oct 202512 Fircliff Park Portishead BS20 7HQ
Received 13 Oct 202523 Queens Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LH
Received 13 Oct 202568 Clifton Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1BW
Received 13 Oct 2025Maybank Bridge Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PB
Received 13 Oct 20257 Bedwin Close Portishead BS20 8BY
Received 13 Oct 2025Land On Downside Road Backwell BS48 3DZ
Received 10 Oct 202514 Frobisher Avenue Portishead BS20 6XB
Received 13 Oct 20253 Westbrook Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8JU
Received 13 Oct 2025Land At Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 13 Oct 2025Land To The West Of Hayes Cottage Lower Strode Road Clevedon
Received 14 Oct 2025Walnut Tree House Christon Road Loxton BS26 2XG
Received 14 Oct 2025Car Parking Unit 1 Greystoke Business Centre High Street Portishead
Received 14 Oct 202538 - 40 High Street Portishead BS20 6EN
Received 14 Oct 202517 Church Hayes Close Nailsea BS48 4LY
Received 14 Oct 20256 Selwood Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 8LF
Received 14 Oct 202523 Bishops Road Cleeve BS49 4NQ
Received 14 Oct 2025Pavement Outside 25 Oatfield Estate Hyatts Wood Road Backwell BS48 3ED
Received 14 Oct 2025Yatton Infant High Street Yatton BS49 4HJ
Received 14 Oct 202591 Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RE
Received 14 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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