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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
13,777 approved · 1,668 refused · 962 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Mar 2018 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Clevedon YMCA Marson Road Clevedon BS21 7NN
Received 19 May 2026Land Adjacent To Valley View West Hill Wraxall
Received 19 May 202678 Quantock Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4DW
Received 19 May 202622 Shrubbery Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 19 May 202653 Hill Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RZ
Received 19 May 2026Oak Lodge West Street Banwell BS29 6DB
Received 19 May 202673 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4BQ
Received 19 May 202647 - 49 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HD
Received 19 May 2026H & H Burgers, Layby Strode Road Clevedon
Received 19 May 20268 Castle Close Flax Bourton BS48 3RG
Received 20 May 20264 Hector Close Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7GX
Received 20 May 2026Rudge Farm Cambridge Batch Clevedon Road Flax Bourton Bristol BS48 1NL
Received 18 May 2026Pavement To The Side Of Wraxall Village Club Bristol Road Wraxall BS48 1LE
Received 18 May 2026Weavers House 1 Gardens Road Clevedon BS21 7QQ
Received 20 May 202611 Faversham Drive Weston-super-Mare BS24 9NZ
Received 20 May 202688 Coleridge Vale Road South Clevedon BS21 6PJ
Received 20 May 2026Brookside Greenhill Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5PF
Received 20 May 202623 Falcon Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS22 8RX
Received 20 May 2026Woodmans Cottage West Hay Road Wrington Bristol BS40 5NW
Received 20 May 2026Holy Trinity Church Church Lane Nailsea BS48 4NG
Received 20 May 20265 Goldcrest Way Portishead BS20 7ND
Received 21 May 202645 Church Road Winscombe BS25 1BP
Received 21 May 202618 Lampton Road Long Ashton BS41 9AL
Received 21 May 2026Land North Of Metro Bus Ashton Vale Bristol
Received 20 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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