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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
13,135 approved · 1,581 refused · 902 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Sept 2018 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Alice House Care Home 8 Queens Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LQ
Received 9 Feb 20268 Stickland Clevedon BS21 5EX
Received 9 Feb 202623 Netherways Clevedon BS21 7YU
Received 9 Feb 2026Barn To Rear Of Eastfield Main Road Flax Bourton
Received 4 Feb 202634 Oldville Avenue Clevedon BS21 6HG
Received 9 Feb 202626 White Lodge Park Portishead BS20 7HH
Received 9 Feb 2026Olde Thatch Clevedon Road Weston-in-Gordano BS20 8PR
Received 9 Feb 2026Olde Thatch Clevedon Road Weston-in-Gordano BS20 8PR
Received 9 Feb 2026Phase 3 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 9 Feb 2026Land North West Of Stoke Leigh Lodge Abbots Leigh Road Abbots Leigh
Received 9 Feb 2026Land At Cox's Green Off Whiting Way Wrington
Received 9 Feb 2026Phase A3 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 5 Feb 2026Southlands Says Lane Langford BS40 5DZ
Received 10 Feb 202648 Corondale Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8PY
Received 10 Feb 2026Land At Tower Farm Tower Road Portishead
Received 10 Feb 2026Thatchers Cider Company Ltd Myrtle Farm Station Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RA
Received 6 Feb 2026Portishead Branch Line Between Portishead In North Somerset And Ashton Junction In Bristol
Received 10 Feb 202655 Boulevard Weston-super-Mare BS23 1PG
Received 11 Feb 202637 Gatcombe Croft Wrington BS40 5GF
Received 11 Feb 202655 Boulevard Weston-super-Mare BS23 1PG
Received 11 Feb 20261 Leagrove Road Clevedon BS21 7QR
Received 11 Feb 20262A Waverley Road Backwell BS48 3LP
Received 11 Feb 2026Portishead Branch Line Between Portishead In North Somerset And Ashton Junction In Bristol
Received 11 Feb 20269 Kings Road Clevedon BS21 7HA
Received 11 Feb 2026Records 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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