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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
13,951 approved · 1,689 refused · 987 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ebdon Farm Ebdon Road Wick St Lawrence BS22 9NZ
Received 15 Jun 2026Land East Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Land North Of Metrobus, Ashton Vale Ashton Road Long Ashton
Received 15 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury BS49 5HD
Received 15 Jun 2026Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury BS49 5HD
Received 15 Jun 20263 Sunningdale Close Nailsea BS48 2UJ
Received 15 Jun 202694 Farleigh Road Backwell BS48 3PD
Received 16 Jun 20266 - 8 Old Church Road Clevedon BS21 6NA
Received 15 Jun 2026Land Opposite 5 Marsh Lane Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0ND
Received 15 Jun 2026Grove View Littleton Lane Winford BS40 8HF
Received 16 Jun 2026Land Opposite 15 Rodney Road Backwell BS48 3HR
Received 16 Jun 202623A Chescombe Road Yatton BS49 4EN
Received 16 Jun 2026Rural Building On Track Off Wrington Hill Wrington
Received 16 Jun 2026Farm House 65 Oldmixon Road Weston-super-Mare BS24 9PD
Received 17 Jun 202629 Laurel Drive Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4SN
Received 17 Jun 2026Scotch Horn Leisure Centre Brockway Nailsea BS48 1BZ
Received 17 Jun 2026Overwood Burwalls Burwalls Road Leigh Woods BS8 3DS
Received 18 Jun 2026Mill Lane Wrington
Received 17 Jun 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 18 Jun 2026Hinkley Point C Connection Project, Between Bridgwater In Somerset And Seabank Substation, North Of Avonmouth.
Received 18 Jun 2026Holy Trinity Church South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2HN
Received 18 Jun 202626 White Lodge Park Portishead BS20 7HH
Received 18 Jun 2026St Katherines School Ham Green Pill BS20 0HU
Received 18 Jun 2026Hale Farm Bridgwater Road Winscombe BS25 1NN
Received 18 Jun 2026Hale Farm Bridgwater Road Winscombe BS25 1NN
Received 18 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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