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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13,294 approved · 1,597 refused · 915 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parsonage Farm 9 Church Lane Long Ashton BS41 9LU
Received 6 Mar 2026Land At Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 6 Mar 2026The Nursery Stone-edge Batch Clevedon Road Tickenham
Received 6 Mar 20264 Coralberry Drive Weston-super-Mare BS22 6SQ
Received 6 Mar 2026Yeo Bank 3 Kenn Road Kenn Clevedon North Somerset BS21 6TH
Received 6 Mar 2026Land Off Upper Green Lane Butcombe BS40 7US
Received 6 Mar 20268 Court Close Backwell BS48 3JB
Received 6 Mar 2026Council Houses 3 Wick Road Wick St Lawrence Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YL
Received 9 Mar 2026Old Farm Cottage Clevedon Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RH
Received 9 Mar 20261 Long Avenue Clevedon BS21 7TX
Received 9 Mar 202636 Slade Road Portishead BS20 6BW
Received 9 Mar 202618 Woodland Close Failand BS8 3XB
Received 9 Mar 20269 Magdalen Way Weston-super-Mare BS22 7PG
Received 9 Mar 202630 Providence Lane Long Ashton Bristol BS41 9DJ
Received 9 Mar 2026The Star Inn Clevedon Road Tickenham BS21 6SE
Received 9 Mar 202635 Sally Hill Portishead BS20 7BH
Received 9 Mar 2026Land South Of Bristol Road And North Of Bath Road Churchill
Received 9 Mar 202633 Church Town Backwell BS48 3JQ
Received 9 Mar 2026Land East Of No 5 Dial Lane Felton
Received 9 Mar 2026Woolpack Inn Shepherds Way St Georges Weston-super-Mare BS22 7XE
Received 9 Mar 2026Land Opposite Gilbert Ash Epic Site Office Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 9 Mar 202611 Yanleigh Close Dundry BS13 8AQ
Received 9 Mar 2026Land North Of Bluebell Cottage Havage Drove Rolstone
Received 9 Mar 202615 Hill Drive Failand BS8 3UX
Received 9 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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