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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
13,418 approved · 1,610 refused · 925 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
93 Station Road Nailsea BS48 1TD
Received 16 Mar 202693 Station Road Nailsea BS48 1TD
Received 16 Mar 2026Phase 8 And 10 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Locking Weston-super-Mare
Received 16 Mar 2026Uphill Grange Nursing Home Uphill Road South Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TX
Received 16 Mar 202690 Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RE
Received 16 Mar 2026Land West Of Warleys Lane Weston-super-Mare
Received 16 Mar 2026West Barn Winters Lane Redhill BS40 5SH
Received 16 Mar 2026Rendy Mead Chew Road Winford BS40 8EZ
Received 16 Mar 20262 And 4 Marsh Road Yatton BS49 4EF
Received 16 Mar 202620 Allington Gardens Nailsea BS48 4RQ
Received 16 Mar 2026Verge Near To 1 Heathfield Park Bristol Road Hewish Puxton
Received 12 Mar 2026Pavement Of 6 Slade Road Portishead BS20 6BS
Received 16 Mar 2026Allotments Wareham Close Nailsea
Received 16 Mar 2026Co-op Woodborough Road Winscombe BS25 1AB
Received 16 Mar 202626 Observatory Field Winscombe BS25 1LL
Received 16 Mar 2026Ground Floor Flat 56 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PT
Received 16 Mar 202624 Albert Road Portishead BS20 6PP
Received 17 Mar 2026The Cottage Church Road South Portishead BS20 6PU
Received 17 Mar 2026Flat 8 6 Elton Road Clevedon BS21 7RA
Received 17 Mar 202627 Cobham Parade Weston-super-Mare BS24 8EG
Received 17 Mar 2026Madeira Court Knightstone Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2BH
Received 17 Mar 202618 Copford Lane Long Ashton BS41 9NF
Received 17 Mar 2026Town Hall Walliscote Grove Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1UJ
Received 17 Mar 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 16 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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