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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
14,097 approved · 1,703 refused · 1,004 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 - 49 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HD
Received 20 Jul 2026Land North-East Of Salthouse Inn And Restaurant Salthouse Road Clevedon BS21 7TY
Received 20 Jul 202624 Quantock Road Portishead BS20 6DP
Received 20 Jul 2026Mercury Petrol Filling Station Morrisons Worle Moor Gate Weston-super-Mare
Received 20 Jul 2026North Of Sunnydene Wild Country Lane Long Ashton
Received 17 Jul 202627 Hallam Road Clevedon BS21 7SE
Received 20 Jul 202682 Clevedon Road Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6RD
Received 21 Jul 202649A South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LX
Received 21 Jul 202611 Norewood Grove Portishead BS20 8DL
Received 21 Jul 202629 Coombe Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QR
Received 21 Jul 2026The Thrift Bridgwater Road Winscombe BS25 1NB
Received 21 Jul 2026The Wansdyke Winford Lane Dundry BS41 8LT
Received 21 Jul 202617 - 21 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HA
Received 21 Jul 202617 - 21 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HA
Received 21 Jul 20264 Gallagher Retail Park Marchfields Way Weston-super-Mare BS23 3YY
Received 21 Jul 2026Fair Winds 24 Silver Street Congresbury BS49 5EY
Received 21 Jul 202631 West Town Road Backwell BS48 3HG
Received 21 Jul 2026Waterloo Hall 17 Waterloo Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1LF
Received 21 Jul 202622 Grove Park Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2LN
Received 22 Jul 202623 Summerhouse Tickenham Clevedon BS21 6SN
Received 22 Jul 202645 - 47 High Street Nailsea BS48 1AW
Received 22 Jul 202617 Burrington Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS24 9LP
Received 22 Jul 2026300 Down Road Portishead BS20 8JT
Received 22 Jul 2026Pavement Outside 6 High Street Portbury BS20 7TW
Received 22 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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