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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
13,899 approved · 1,679 refused · 980 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Homestead Bath Road Blagdon BS40 7SF
Received 1 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury
Received 1 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury
Received 1 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury
Received 1 Jun 20269 Princes Road Clevedon BS21 7SY
Received 1 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury
Received 1 Jun 2026Sunnycote 22 Pauls Causeway Congresbury BS49 5DQ
Received 1 Jun 202634 Lodway Close Pill BS20 0DE
Received 1 Jun 2026The Tithe Barn Church Lane Nailsea BS48 4NG
Received 1 Jun 202639 Lower Church Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AQ
Received 1 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury
Received 1 Jun 2026Bbc Colehouse Lane Clevedon BS21 6UT
Received 1 Jun 2026Blagdon Fire Station Station Road Blagdon BS40 7RL
Received 1 Jun 202639 Lower Church Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AQ
Received 2 Jun 20267 Clynder Grove Clevedon BS21 7DF
Received 2 Jun 202619 Stowey Road Yatton BS49 4HS
Received 2 Jun 202619 Cecil Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2NG
Received 2 Jun 20261 Victoria Road Clevedon BS21 7RY
Received 2 Jun 202637 The Grove Wraxall BS48 1LW
Received 2 Jun 2026Nut Tree Farm Puxton Lane Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6TL
Received 3 Jun 2026Bridleway Farm The Street Regil BS40 8BD
Received 3 Jun 202633 Beach Road West Portishead BS20 7HX
Received 3 Jun 202614B Albert Quadrant Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QY
Received 3 Jun 202611 Elmhyrst Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2SJ
Received 3 Jun 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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