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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
14,194 approved · 1,716 refused · 1,023 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 17 Aug 2026Land Opposite 18 Currells Lane Felton Winford BS40 9XG
Received 19 Aug 202632 Badger Rise Portishead Bristol BS20 8AX
Received 19 Aug 202615 Bishops Road Cleeve BS49 4NQ
Received 19 Aug 20269 Conygar Close Clevedon BS21 6AP
Received 19 Aug 2026Somerset House Care Home 157 High Street Yatton BS49 4DB
Received 19 Aug 2026Box Bush Cottage North End Road Yatton BS49 4AT
Received 19 Aug 2026Land West Of Winters Lane Redhill Wrington
Received 19 Aug 2026Land West Of Chapel Lane Claverham BS49 4LT
Received 19 Aug 2026Hilltop Cottage Hillview Road Loxton BS26 2XJ
Received 19 Aug 2026Abbey Cloisters East Street Banwell BS29 6BW
Received 19 Aug 2026The Connors Acre Backwell Common Backwell BS48 3AD
Received 19 Aug 202635 Halswell Road Clevedon BS21 6LE
Received 20 Aug 2026Bow Cottage Gatcombe Lane Flax Bourton BS48 3QT
Received 20 Aug 202628 Glebe Road Long Ashton BS41 9LH
Received 20 Aug 2026Pavement Opposite 112 Weston Road Long Ashton
Received 19 Aug 2026Land In Playing Fields Clevedon School Valley Road Clevedon
Received 22 Jul 2026Ellick Barn Burrington Combe Blagdon BS40 7TZ
Received 20 Aug 2026Bristol Airport North Side Road Felton Wrington BS48 3DY
Received 19 Aug 2026Land South Of Churchland Way, Wolvershill Road (Parklands, Mead Fields) Banwell Weston-super-Mare
Received 20 Aug 202652 Ridgeway Nailsea BS48 2EF
Received 20 Aug 2026Locking Parklands Locking Moor Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 13 Aug 2026Jerrys Farm Land Off Moor Road Banwell
Received 20 Aug 2026Land To Rear Of 47 - 55 Mendip Road Yatton
Received 20 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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