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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
13,852 approved · 1,673 refused · 973 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Innisfree Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SD
Received 26 May 2026Lakeside Bridgwater Road Barrow Gurney BS48 3SJ
Received 26 May 2026Troutbeck House 6 Pauls Causeway Congresbury BS49 5DH
Received 26 May 2026Front Of Green Barn Greenhill Lane Sandford
Received 26 May 2026Land At Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 26 May 2026Land At Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 26 May 20269 Southside Crescent Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UY
Received 26 May 2026423 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8QN
Received 26 May 20266 Coleridge Vale Road East Clevedon BS21 6NS
Received 26 May 2026Land To The South East Of Chelvey Batch Brockley
Received 26 May 2026Portishead Branch Line Between Portishead In North Somerset And Ashton Junction In Bristol
Received 26 May 2026Lake Cottage Lake Road Portishead BS20 7JA
Received 27 May 202651 The Glebe Wrington BS40 5LX
Received 27 May 2026Spring Cottage Bristol Road Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6SE
Received 27 May 2026Former Poundland Queensway Weston-super-Mare BS22 6BL
Received 27 May 202615 Westbourne Crescent Clevedon BS21 7YB
Received 27 May 202647 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PX
Received 27 May 2026Crosby Hall 1 Royal Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AX
Received 27 May 202623 Fitzharding Road Pill BS20 0EH
Received 27 May 2026Street Record Says Lane Langford
Received 27 May 2026Tyntesfield House Tyntesfield Wraxall BS48 1NX
Received 27 May 2026Tyntesfield House Tyntesfield Wraxall BS48 1NX
Received 27 May 2026Core Hill Cooks Bridle Path Backwell BS48 3DJ
Received 27 May 202617 The Glebe Wrington BS40 5LX
Received 27 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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