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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
13,512 approved · 1,630 refused · 942 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
94 Walton Road Clevedon BS21 6AN
Received 31 Mar 2026132 Hillside Road Portishead BS20 8LG
Received 31 Mar 2026Tyntesfield House Tyntesfield Wraxall BS48 1NX
Received 31 Mar 2026Tyntesfield House Tyntesfield Wraxall BS48 1NX
Received 31 Mar 202617A Linden Road Clevedon BS21 7SR
Received 31 Mar 202634 Fitzharding Road Pill BS20 0EH
Received 31 Mar 2026Ashton Hill House Weston Road Failand BS8 3US
Received 31 Mar 2026Barn 1 North Of Box Bush Farm Box Bush Lane Rolstone Weston-super-Mare BS24 6UA
Received 31 Mar 20264 Westfield Close Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4XQ
Received 31 Mar 20268 Macrae Road Pill BS20 0EB
Received 31 Mar 2026Goblin Coombe Farm Winters Lane Redhill BS40 5SW
Received 31 Mar 2026Land Opposite Churchill House Churchill Green Churchill
Received 31 Mar 202615 The Orchard Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 8DU
Received 31 Mar 202635 Theynes Croft Long Ashton BS41 9NA
Received 31 Mar 20269 Church Road Winscombe BS25 1BG
Received 1 Apr 2026The Cowsheds The Triangle Wrington BS40 5LB
Received 30 Mar 2026Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea
Received 1 Apr 20262 The Grange Flax Bourton BS48 3QH
Received 1 Apr 20264A Woodside Gardens Portishead BS20 8EQ
Received 1 Apr 2026Land SW Of Roundabout At The Runway And Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare BS24 9AA
Received 1 Apr 2026Little Batch Grib Lane Blagdon BS40 7SA
Received 2 Apr 2026The Northern Field At The Former Claverham Works Bishops Road Claverham
Received 2 Apr 20262 Little Orchard Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4SU
Received 2 Apr 2026Barn At Dundry Lane Dundry
Received 2 Apr 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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