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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
13,174 approved · 1,586 refused · 905 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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How Ham Farm Clevedon Road Portishead BS20 8PL
Received 19 Feb 202633 The Breaches Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0LP
Received 19 Feb 2026Agricultural Building Villa Farmhouse Bristol Road Hewish BS24 6RQ
Received 19 Feb 2026121A High Street Portishead
Received 19 Feb 2026Fair Meadows Streamcross Claverham BS49 4QA
Received 19 Feb 2026Former WC Block, North Of The War Memorial Grove Park Grove Lane Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QJ
Received 20 Feb 2026Land West Of 4 Butts Orchard Wrington BS40 5DR
Received 20 Feb 20262 Landemann Circus Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QE
Received 20 Feb 2026Brockley Elm Farm Brockley Lane Brockley BS48 4AQ
Received 20 Feb 202682 Spring Hill Weston-super-Mare BS22 9AZ
Received 20 Feb 202624 Lyvedon Way Long Ashton BS41 9ND
Received 20 Feb 202645 Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RB
Received 20 Feb 2026Claverham Green Farm Lower Claverham Road Claverham BS49 4PT
Received 20 Feb 2026Agricultural Building Off Iwood Lane Congresbury
Received 23 Feb 2026Azthetics Sunnyside Road North Weston-super-Mare BS23 3PZ
Received 23 Feb 20265 Gerard Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RE
Received 23 Feb 2026Ash House Front Street Churchill Winscombe BS25 5NB
Received 23 Feb 2026Land At Box Bush Farm North End Road Yatton BS49 4AT
Received 23 Feb 20266 Little Halt Portishead BS20 8JQ
Received 23 Feb 202625 Nithsdale Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JP
Received 23 Feb 202633 Clarence Road North Weston-super-Mare BS23 4AW
Received 23 Feb 20269 Byfields Clevedon BS21 5HP
Received 23 Feb 2026Verge On Moorbridge Drove Off Weston Road Congresbury BS49 5EB
Received 18 Feb 2026Near 14 Cleeve Hill Road Cleeve
Received 18 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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