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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13,899 approved · 1,679 refused · 980 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Received 3 Jun 20262 St Mary's Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PY
Received 3 Jun 2026Land To The Rear Of Little Court Winscombe Hill Winscombe BS25 1DG
Received 3 Jun 2026Purn Farm Industrial Estate Bridgwater Road Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0AN
Received 3 Jun 202650 Chipping Cross Clevedon BS21 5JE
Received 3 Jun 2026Telephone Exchange St Marks Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 7PW
Received 3 Jun 2026Squares Church Road Dundry BS41 8LH
Received 3 Jun 202639 The Orchard Locking BS24 8DZ
Received 4 Jun 2026Flat 4 Royal Court Marine Hill Clevedon BS21 7NX
Received 4 Jun 2026Flat 1 Munscroft Court 32 Montpelier Weston-super-Mare BS23 2RJ
Received 4 Jun 2026The Old Mill Mill Lane Portbury Bristol BS20 7UA
Received 4 Jun 2026Land At Hilliers Lane Churchill
Received 4 Jun 2026Land South Of Somerset Avenue Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Jun 20264 Clevedon Triangle Centre Clevedon BS21 6HX
Received 4 Jun 2026Le Moignes High Street Wrington BS40 5QD
Received 4 Jun 202615 Parsonage Road Long Ashton BS41 9LL
Received 5 Jun 2026Uphill Grange Nursing Home Uphill Road South Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TX
Received 5 Jun 2026Rise 1 Harris Lane Abbots Leigh BS8 3QX
Received 5 Jun 20267 Woodhill Road Portishead BS20 7EU
Received 5 Jun 20265A Woodhill Road Portishead BS20 7EU
Received 5 Jun 2026Old Mortuary Building Located Directly East Of The Student Barn And West Of The Dolberry Building Bristol Veterinary School Stock Lane Langford Churchill
Received 5 Jun 20264 The Dell Nailsea BS48 2JT
Received 8 Jun 20269 Fieldfare Avenue Portishead BS20 7NL
Received 8 Jun 2026334 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8PD
Received 8 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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