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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
14,062 approved · 1,703 refused · 997 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bottreaux Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SD
Received 7 Jul 202642 Uphill Way Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TN
Received 7 Jul 2026Street Record Mendip Road Portishead
Received 7 Jul 2026Former YHC Hire Solutions Site Searle Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 3XP
Received 7 Jul 2026Barley Lodge Long Lane Wrington BS40 5SA
Received 8 Jul 2026Hemingway's Field, NW Of Allotments, Off Purn Way Bleadon BS24 0QF
Received 7 Jul 202626 Westward Drive Pill BS20 0JP
Received 8 Jul 2026The Barn Havyatt Road Wrington BS40 5QY
Received 8 Jul 2026Leigh Court Business Centre Pill Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3RA
Received 8 Jul 2026Yew Tree Cottage High Street Blagdon BS40 7RA
Received 6 Jul 2026Land Off Lower Norton Lane Kewstoke
Received 7 Jul 202625 Snowdon Vale Weston-super-Mare BS23 2XR
Received 9 Jul 2026Downleaze Crabtree Lane Dundry BS41 8LN
Received 9 Jul 202646 Station Road Nailsea BS48 4PD
Received 9 Jul 2026Watersmeet Bath Road Blagdon BS40 7SE
Received 9 Jul 2026Street Record Kingston Lane Winford
Received 9 Jul 2026Plantation And Bluebell Wood Boundary To East And South In Woodland Uphill Road South Uphill
Received 9 Jul 2026Land At Grove Farm West Town Road Backwell
Received 9 Jul 2026Avon Plants Woodruff Kennmoor Road Kenn
Received 6 Jul 2026Field To The South Of Laurel Place Farm New Road Churchill
Received 9 Jul 202697 Beach Road Kewstoke Weston-super-Mare BS22 9UG
Received 9 Jul 2026Holiday Inn Red Hill Redhill Wrington BS40 5RB
Received 9 Jul 202619 Clarence Grove Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4AG
Received 10 Jul 2026Former Weston Airfield Winterstoke Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 9 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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