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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
14,212 approved · 1,717 refused · 1,026 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bury Farm The Bury Locking BS24 8BZ
Received 26 Aug 20263 Arundell Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QG
Received 27 Aug 2026Secret Garden Nursery The Swallows Stock Lane Langford BS49 5JL
Received 27 Aug 2026The Barn Frog Lane Felton BS40 9UN
Received 27 Aug 2026Weston-super-Mare Railway Station Station Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XY
Received 27 Aug 20261A Somerset Square Nailsea BS48 1RP
Received 27 Aug 20269 Sercombe Park Clevedon BS21 5AZ
Received 27 Aug 2026Filers Green Station Road Blagdon BS40 7TB
Received 27 Aug 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 27 Aug 202612 Elgar Close Clevedon BS21 5BS
Received 27 Aug 2026Outside 137A High Street Portishead BS20 6PY
Received 28 Aug 2026Rolstone Farm Business Park West Rolstone Road Hewish
Received 28 Aug 2026Land At Villa Farm Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6RQ
Received 28 Aug 2026Builders Yard Land East Of The Guide Hut Weston Road Long Ashton
Received 28 Aug 2026Land Adjoining Coombe Farm Sandford Road Winscombe
Received 28 Aug 202618 Rickford Road Nailsea BS48 4PY
Received 1 Sept 202627 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 1 Sept 202627 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE
Received 1 Sept 202612 Phoenix Way Portishead BS20 7JJ
Received 1 Sept 2026Flat 2 Deanehurst 4 Atlantic Road South Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DE
Received 1 Sept 20262 Edgehill Road Clevedon BS21 7BZ
Received 1 Sept 2026Land Adjacent To Elsbert Drive Bristol BS13 8AL
Received 1 Sept 202658 Dundry Lane Dundry BS41 8JQ
Received 1 Sept 2026Unit 9 And 11 Old Mill Road Portishead BS20 7BX
Received 1 Sept 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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