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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
14,172 approved · 1,711 refused · 1,018 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31A Bryant Gardens Clevedon BS21 5HE
Received 10 Aug 202611 Linden Road Clevedon BS21 7SL
Received 10 Aug 20268 Cecil Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2NQ
Received 10 Aug 2026Former Barrow Hospital Hospital Road Barrow Gurney
Received 10 Aug 2026Mizzymead Recreation Centre Mizzymead Rise Nailsea BS48 2JJ
Received 11 Aug 2026Barn At The Acre Shiplate Road Bleadon
Received 11 Aug 2026Highmead Mead Farm Littleton Lane Winford BS40 8HF
Received 11 Aug 2026Land To Rear Of 14 Woodborough Road Winscombe BS25 1AD
Received 11 Aug 2026Royal Pier Apartments 2 Marine Parade Clevedon
Received 11 Aug 2026Royal Pier Apartments 2 Marine Parade Clevedon
Received 11 Aug 202668 Silver Street Nailsea BS48 2DS
Received 11 Aug 2026Courtlands 28 Main Road Hutton Weston-super-Mare BS24 9QH
Received 11 Aug 2026Land At Farleigh Fields And 54 And 56 Farleigh Road Backwell
Received 12 Aug 2026Goblin Coombe Farm Winters Lane Redhill BS40 5SW
Received 12 Aug 20261 The Precinct High Street Portishead BS20 6AH
Received 12 Aug 202611 Rudgleigh Road Pill BS20 0DS
Received 12 Aug 202610 Edgehill Road Clevedon BS21 7BZ
Received 12 Aug 202645A Charlton Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4HG
Received 12 Aug 202617 Eastcroft Blagdon BS40 7RT
Received 13 Aug 2026Grange Cottage Uphill Road South Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4TX
Received 13 Aug 2026Yeo Bank High Street Congresbury BS49 5JA
Received 13 Aug 202620 Clarence Grove Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4AQ
Received 13 Aug 202612 Wyndham Crescent Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0PG
Received 12 Aug 2026South Fell Netherton Wood Lane Nailsea BS48 4DE
Received 14 Aug 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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