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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
13,687 approved · 1,655 refused · 952 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Ellick Barn Luvers Lane Blagdon
Received 1 May 202616 Elmsleigh Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JN
Received 1 May 202632 New Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6AQ
Received 1 May 202625 Beach Road Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UU
Received 1 May 202639 Trewartha Park Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RT
Received 1 May 2026Ardmore Vicarage Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PH
Received 1 May 2026128 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9LS
Received 1 May 2026Pavement Of Annex 10 Belvedere Crescent Milton Weston-super-Mare
Received 1 May 2026Seawall Farm Lower Strode Road Clevedon BS21 6UX
Received 1 May 2026The Jubilee Inn Main Road Flax Bourton BS48 3QX
Received 4 May 202658 Brockley Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS24 9LG
Received 4 May 2026Box Cottage 33 High Street Yatton BS49 4JD
Received 4 May 2026Dinghurst Farm Dinghurst Road Churchill Winscombe BS25 5PN
Received 4 May 202616 Uphill Park Homes Folly Lane Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TJ
Received 4 May 202653 Dark Lane Backwell BS48 3NT
Received 4 May 2026Cedar House Chelvey Batch Brockley BS48 3AR
Received 5 May 202698 West Town Road Backwell BS48 3BE
Received 5 May 20269 Channel Road Clevedon BS21 7BY
Received 5 May 2026Field East Of Footpath Off Clevedon Road Wraxall
Received 5 May 2026Palmers Elm Farm Wick Lane West Hewish Puxton BS24 6RP
Received 5 May 202656 Dabinett Drive Sandford Winscombe BS25 5AE
Received 6 May 2026197 Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RX
Received 6 May 2026Land Off Butts Batch Wrington
Received 6 May 20261 Almond Close Weston-super-Mare BS22 6RR
Received 6 May 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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