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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
13,349 approved · 1,604 refused · 921 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Manor Court Backwell BS48 3BS
Received 9 Mar 2026Maplecroft Lower Claverham Road Claverham BS49 4PZ
Received 9 Mar 2026Land To The West And East Of The Strawberry Line Brinsea Road Congresbury
Received 10 Mar 2026Royal Pier Apartments 2 Marine Parade Clevedon
Received 10 Mar 2026Brookside Yanley Lane Long Ashton BS41 9LW
Received 10 Mar 2026Portishead Quays Harbour Road Portishead
Received 10 Mar 2026Telecommunication Station Bath Road Langford
Received 4 Mar 2026Cowslip Farm Cowslip Lane Loxton BS26 2XF
Received 10 Mar 2026Copse Road Chapel Seavale Road Clevedon BS21 7QB
Received 5 Mar 2026Land North Of Banwell Road North Of Elborough Village Hutton / Locking
Received 10 Mar 2026Land To The South Of Locking Head Drove Locking
Received 11 Mar 202614 Cormorant Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 8XA
Received 11 Mar 202650 Dial Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7HN
Received 11 Mar 2026Telecom Mast Along The Long Ashton By-Pass Yanley Lane Long Ashton
Received 11 Mar 2026Freemans Shed, Land NE Of The White House Potters Hill Felton
Received 11 Mar 2026Jellalabad Ladye Bay Clevedon BS21 7BU
Received 11 Mar 2026Land At The Corner Of Electricity Board Sub Station Stock Lane Langford
Received 11 Mar 202623A Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 12 Mar 2026Keepers Gate Forest School Wentwood Drive Weston-super-Mare BS24 9ND
Received 12 Mar 202612 Binhay Road Yatton BS49 4HD
Received 12 Mar 202624 High Street Portishead BS20 6EN
Received 12 Mar 20264 Hector Close Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7GX
Received 12 Mar 2026Leigh Court Farm Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RA
Received 12 Mar 202635 Church Lane Backwell BS48 3PH
Received 12 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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