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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14,062 approved · 1,703 refused · 997 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Land North Of Mulberry Road Congresbury BS49 5HD
Received 10 Jul 202626 Worlebury Hill Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 9SU
Received 10 Jul 2026Unit 27 Portishead Business Park Old Mill Road Portishead BS20 7BX
Received 10 Jul 20262 Limestone Way Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0AY
Received 10 Jul 20262 Limestone Way Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0AY
Received 10 Jul 2026Compound 1 Flavour Palmers Elm Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6RN
Received 13 Jul 2026Flavour Palmers Elm Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6RN
Received 13 Jul 2026125 Farleigh Road Backwell BS48 3PG
Received 13 Jul 2026Land South Of Sladers Leigh Winscombe Hill Winscombe
Received 13 Jul 20262 St Marys Grove Nailsea BS48 4NQ
Received 13 Jul 2026Lye Cross Farm Lye Cross Road Redhill Wrington BS40 5RY
Received 13 Jul 2026Orchard End Kenn Street Kenn BS21 6TN
Received 13 Jul 2026Pavement Outside 71 Mendip Road Yatton BS49 4HP
Received 13 Jul 2026Outside The Old Manse Chapel Hill Wrington BS40 5NJ
Received 13 Jul 2026Land At Weston Rugby Club Sunnyside Road North Weston-super-Mare
Received 13 Jul 202619 High Street Portbury BS20 7TW
Received 13 Jul 2026Departure Concourse Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 14 Jul 20264 - 6 Cranwell Road Locking Weston-super-Mare BS24 7GF
Received 14 Jul 2026Phase 8 And 10 Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Locking Weston-super-Mare
Received 14 Jul 202615 Parsonage Road Long Ashton BS41 9LL
Received 14 Jul 20266 Norewood Grove Portishead BS20 8DL
Received 14 Jul 2026Land At OS Plot 5134 & Churchill Cars Ltd Honeyhall Lane Congresbury BS49 5JX
Received 14 Jul 2026Dial House West Hay Road Wrington BS40 5NP
Received 14 Jul 2026Portishead Branch Line Between Portishead In North Somerset And Ashton Junction In Bristol
Received 14 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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