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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
13,548 approved · 1,636 refused · 942 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Rodney Road Backwell
Received 2 Apr 2026At Worle 58 New Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6AQ
Received 2 Apr 20263 Quarry Way Nailsea BS48 2NE
Received 2 Apr 202637 Greenhill Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 7PE
Received 2 Apr 2026Parsonage Farm 9 Church Lane Long Ashton BS41 9LU
Received 2 Apr 2026Bytes Digital Ltd 13 Gardens Road Clevedon BS21 7QQ
Received 2 Apr 2026F Sweeting And Sons Station Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RQ
Received 2 Apr 2026Land Rear Of 14 George Street Weston-super-Mare
Received 7 Apr 202651 Kings Croft Long Ashton BS41 9ED
Received 7 Apr 2026The Poplars Old Lane Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RZ
Received 7 Apr 2026Land Off Chapel Pill Lane Opposite Rock Cottages Pill
Received 7 Apr 202626 Thackeray Road Clevedon BS21 7JQ
Received 7 Apr 202610 Theynes Croft Long Ashton BS41 9NA
Received 7 Apr 2026Land At Car Park Adjacent To Worle Moor Gate Weston-super-Mare
Received 7 Apr 2026101 Ebdon Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6US
Received 7 Apr 2026Land At Box Bush Farm North End Road Yatton
Received 7 Apr 20269 Queens Road Clevedon BS21 7TH
Received 7 Apr 2026Yeo Bank High Street Congresbury BS49 5JA
Received 7 Apr 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 7 Apr 202611 Hill Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RX
Received 7 Apr 202624 Holstein Avenue Winscombe BS25 1EJ
Received 8 Apr 202675-83 (odd) And 115-125 (odd) Mendip Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3HB
Received 7 Apr 202612 And 37-45 (odd) Millstone Close Weston-super-Mare BS24 7GY
Received 7 Apr 2026Land Adjacent To 5 Blackmoor Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RQ
Received 8 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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