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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13,587 approved · 1,642 refused · 943 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
The Stables Saxon Street Langford BS40 5BP
Received 17 Apr 2026Old Bell House Bell Square Blagdon BS40 7UB
Received 20 Apr 2026Yewtrees Station Road Blagdon BS40 7RN
Received 20 Apr 2026Land At Redding Pit Lane Winford
Received 20 Apr 20263 Gerard Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RE
Received 20 Apr 2026Plot A7 A, Weston Business Quarter Plot Beaufighter Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 20 Apr 2026The Northern Field At The Former Claverham Works Bishops Road Cleeve
Received 17 Apr 20264 Pyne Point Clevedon BS21 7RL
Received 20 Apr 20269 - 11 The Triangle Clevedon
Received 20 Apr 20265 Manor Close Portishead BS20 8NX
Received 20 Apr 2026Flat 1 14 Elton Road Clevedon BS21 7RG
Received 20 Apr 2026The Dell Church Lane Lower Failand BS8 3SP
Received 21 Apr 2026Freeway Trust Leigh Court Activity Centre Pill Road Abbots Leigh
Received 21 Apr 2026Royston Wolvershill Road Banwell BS29 6DG
Received 21 Apr 202618 Oaklands Elton Road Clevedon BS21 7QZ
Received 21 Apr 2026Agricultural Barn At The Former Barrow Hospital Winstones Road Barrow Gurney
Received 21 Apr 2026101 Ebdon Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6US
Received 21 Apr 202649 South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LX
Received 22 Apr 2026Police Maintenance Depot Stuart Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3XN
Received 22 Apr 20267 Stafford Place Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QZ
Received 22 Apr 2026St Francis Church Ash Hayes Road Nailsea BS48 2LP
Received 22 Apr 2026Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea
Received 22 Apr 2026All Saints Cottage Strawberry Hill Clevedon BS21 6AF
Received 22 Apr 2026The Vicarage Station Road Congresbury BS49 5DX
Received 23 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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