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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
13,587 approved · 1,642 refused · 943 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rolstone Farm Business Park West Rolstone Road Hewish
Received 14 Apr 2026Caffle Nursery Bristol Road Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6SE
Received 14 Apr 202618 Sand Road Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UH
Received 15 Apr 2026Stolee Rickford Lane Burrington BS40 7AA
Received 15 Apr 2026Whiteoaks Manor Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RT
Received 15 Apr 2026Cambridge Batch Garage Weston Road Long Ashton BS48 3QS
Received 15 Apr 202622 Varsity Way Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7DH
Received 15 Apr 20266 Southfield Close Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4XJ
Received 15 Apr 2026Plum Tree Cottage Clevedon Road Walton-in-Gordano Clevedon BS21 7AJ
Received 15 Apr 2026Plum Tree Cottage Clevedon Road Walton-in-Gordano Clevedon BS21 7AJ
Received 15 Apr 202631 Woodland Road Nailsea BS48 1HX
Received 16 Apr 2026Milfort House Langford Road Langford BS40 5BN
Received 15 Apr 2026Land Off Accommodation Road And Bridgwater Road Bleadon
Received 7 Apr 2026Barn South Of Clevedon Road Weston-in-Gordano Portishead
Received 16 Apr 202624 Franklins Way Claverham BS49 4ND
Received 16 Apr 2026Pavement Of 27 Old Street Clevedon BS21 6ND
Received 16 Apr 2026Pavement Of 27 Old Street Clevedon BS21 6ND
Received 16 Apr 20261 Beechfield Close Long Ashton BS41 9JP
Received 16 Apr 2026Hillview Naish Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3ST
Received 16 Apr 2026187A Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3HE
Received 16 Apr 20263 Lovelinch Gardens Long Ashton BS41 9AH
Received 16 Apr 2026107 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9JE
Received 17 Apr 2026Land On South Side Of Bransby Way West Of Herons Moor School Weston-super-Mare BS24 7BW
Received 17 Apr 20265 Lynbrook Long Ashton BS41 9BH
Received 17 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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