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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
14,117 approved · 1,705 refused · 1,010 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Coleridge Vale Road East Clevedon BS21 6NS
Received 22 Jul 202690 Rayens Cross Road Long Ashton BS41 9DY
Received 23 Jul 2026Rose Cottage Langford Road Langford BS40 5BW
Received 23 Jul 202620 Mulberry Close Backwell BS48 3HX
Received 22 Jul 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 23 Jul 20264 Rownham Hill Leigh Woods Long Ashton BS8 3PU
Received 23 Jul 2026Yatton Rugby Football Club North End Road Yatton BS49 4AW
Received 23 Jul 2026Rolstone Farm West Rolstone Road Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6UU
Received 23 Jul 2026Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 21 Jul 202647 Bristol Road Lower Weston-super-Mare BS23 2PX
Received 23 Jul 202631 All Saints Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2NW
Received 23 Jul 2026Westleigh Farm Mead Lane Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RG
Received 24 Jul 2026Garden House 37 Victoria Road Clevedon BS21 7SB
Received 24 Jul 2026Former Quarry Bristol Road Wraxall
Received 24 Jul 2026Charlton Cottage Post Office Lane Flax Bourton BS48 3QE
Received 24 Jul 20268 Fowey Close Nailsea BS48 2UR
Received 24 Jul 202619 Ridge Close Portishead BS20 8RQ
Received 27 Jul 20262 Tudor Lodge Court 23A Uphill Road North Weston-super-Mare BS23 4NG
Received 27 Jul 202628 Homefield Close Winscombe BS25 1JE
Received 27 Jul 20269 Somerdale Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS22 8ED
Received 27 Jul 2026Chestnut Cottage 11 Canada Coombe Hutton Weston-super-Mare BS24 9US
Received 27 Jul 2026Walliscote Primary Walliscote Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1UY
Received 27 Jul 202638 Shadow Walk Elborough Weston-super-Mare BS24 8PH
Received 28 Jul 20266 Herbert Road Clevedon BS21 7ND
Received 28 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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