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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
13,987 approved · 1,694 refused · 991 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 All Saints Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2NN
Received 25 Jun 20264 Herbert Road Clevedon BS21 7ND
Received 25 Jun 202661 Dial Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7ER
Received 25 Jun 2026Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Youngwood Lane Nailsea
Received 25 Jun 202668 Rosemount Road Flax Bourton BS48 1UQ
Received 25 Jun 202652 The Glebe Wrington BS40 5LX
Received 26 Jun 202619 Clarence Grove Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4AG
Received 26 Jun 20264 The Cornfields Weston-super-Mare BS22 9DX
Received 26 Jun 2026Elm Tree Cottage West Wick Weston-super-Mare BS24 7TE
Received 26 Jun 20263 Amberlands Close Backwell BS48 3LW
Received 26 Jun 2026Downleaze Crabtree Lane Dundry BS41 8LN
Received 26 Jun 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 26 Jun 2026142 Merlin Park Portishead BS20 8RW
Received 26 Jun 2026Land South Of Clevedon Road Portishead
Received 29 Jun 20261 Burden Park Clevedon BS21 7GB
Received 29 Jun 2026Lower Ground Floor 1 - 3 Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2EE
Received 29 Jun 202633 Blakeney Grove Nailsea BS48 4RG
Received 29 Jun 2026Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Nailsea
Received 29 Jun 202636 High Street Claverham BS49 4NE
Received 29 Jun 2026The Orchard 8 Andruss Drive Dundry BS41 8LJ
Received 30 Jun 2026Land At Midgell Farm Brockley Way Brockley
Received 30 Jun 2026All Saints Cottage Strawberry Hill Clevedon BS21 6AF
Received 30 Jun 202624 - 25 Somerset Square Nailsea BS48 1RQ
Received 30 Jun 2026Land North West Of Stoke Leigh Lodge Abbots Leigh Road Abbots Leigh
Received 30 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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