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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
14,023 approved · 1,700 refused · 993 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 Fernlea Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8NE
Received 30 Jun 202678 Farm Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8BD
Received 1 Jul 2026First Floor Flat 157A Milton Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8AR
Received 1 Jul 20261 - 2 Crown Glass Place Nailsea Bristol BS48 1RD
Received 1 Jul 2026Gallop View Stables Horse Race Lane Failand
Received 1 Jul 2026Cemetary Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare
Received 1 Jul 2026Land To The Rear Of 69 South Road Portishead
Received 1 Jul 2026Garage And Land To North Of 47 Caswell Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RU
Received 2 Jul 202621 Brae Road Winscombe BS25 1LN
Received 2 Jul 2026Moon And Sixpence 15 The Beach Clevedon BS21 7QU
Received 2 Jul 2026Gatcombe Farm Industrial Estate West Hay Road Wrington BS40 5GF
Received 2 Jul 20264 Clarence Gardens Portishead BS20 6BN
Received 2 Jul 20265 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 2 Jul 2026Langford House Langford Road Langford BS40 5DU
Received 2 Jul 202616 Southridge Heights Weston-super-Mare BS24 9JH
Received 2 Jul 2026Land North Of 1A Lilac Cottages Potters Hill Felton
Received 29 Jun 2026Collum Lane Kewstoke
Received 29 Jun 2026Trelorn Cherry Grove Yatton BS49 4DJ
Received 2 Jul 202647 Sally Hill Portishead BS20 7BH
Received 2 Jul 2026Land At Nailsea Wall Farm Nailsea Wall Lane Nailsea BS48 4DD
Received 30 Jun 202617 Windmill Hill Hutton BS24 9UW
Received 2 Jul 2026Land South Of Churchland Way, Wolvershill Road (Parklands, Mead Fields) Banwell Weston-super-Mare
Received 2 Jul 2026Old Farm Cottage Clevedon Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7RH
Received 2 Jul 2026Old Post Office Saxon Street Langford BS40 5BP
Received 2 Jul 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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