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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
13,294 approved · 1,597 refused · 915 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cypress Farm Caravan Site Cypress Farm Wick Road Wick St Lawrence Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YR
Received 3 Mar 2026High Trees Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SA
Received 4 Mar 202660 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PT
Received 4 Mar 202645 West Town Road Backwell BS48 3HG
Received 4 Mar 202617 Hart Close Pill BS20 0BY
Received 4 Mar 202623 Gregory Mead Yatton BS49 4QJ
Received 4 Mar 2026Brockley Elm Farm Brockley Lane Brockley BS48 4AQ
Received 4 Mar 202663 Westward Drive Pill BS20 0JW
Received 4 Mar 2026Bristol Hotel Chapel Hill Clevedon BS21 7NL
Received 4 Mar 202684A Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2TN
Received 4 Mar 20262 Applehayes Rise Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0FD
Received 5 Mar 20263 Brendon Road Portishead BS20 6DJ
Received 5 Mar 2026Barn 2, Box Bush Farm Box Bush Lane Rolstone BS24 6UA
Received 5 Mar 2026Copse Road Chapel Seavale Road Clevedon BS21 7QB
Received 5 Mar 202679 Ham Green Pill BS20 0HF
Received 5 Mar 2026196 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3LU
Received 5 Mar 20262 Ashton Crescent Nailsea BS48 2JR
Received 5 Mar 202612 Folleigh Lane Long Ashton BS41 9JB
Received 5 Mar 202617 Burrington Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS24 9LP
Received 5 Mar 2026Mead Cottage Duck Lane Kenn BS21 6TP
Received 5 Mar 202622 Ashcombe Gardens Weston-super-Mare BS23 2XB
Received 5 Mar 2026104 High Street Yatton BS49 4DW
Received 6 Mar 2026Wayside Street End Lane Blagdon BS40 7TW
Received 6 Mar 20268 Glebe Road Clevedon BS21 6QD
Received 6 Mar 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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