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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
14,239 approved · 1,718 refused · 1,028 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Mar 2018 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Knightcott Road Abbots Leigh BS8 3SB
Received 8 Sept 202669 South Road Portishead BS20 7DY
Received 9 Sept 2026Flat H 1 South Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2HA
Received 9 Sept 2026Land At Lower Stock Farm Bakers Lane Langford Churchill
Received 9 Sept 2026Land Off West Hay Road Wrington
Received 9 Sept 2026Winscombe Court Winscombe Hill Winscombe BS25 1DE
Received 9 Sept 202613 Wolvershill Park Banwell BS29 6DQ
Received 9 Sept 2026Denny House Pill Road Abbots Leigh Bristol BS8 3QY
Received 10 Sept 20262 Winford Close Portishead BS20 6YG
Received 10 Sept 2026Weston Airfield Phase 2 Primary School Land South Of The Runway Haywood Village Weston-super-Mare
Received 10 Sept 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 10 Sept 2026Junction Of High Street And Brampton Way Portishead
Received 10 Sept 2026Land East Of 2 Fairfield Close Backwell BS48 3PS
Received 10 Sept 2026Rolstone Farm Business Park West Rolstone Road Hewish
Received 10 Sept 2026468 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 8QX
Received 11 Sept 2026Willow Farm Ebdon Lane Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YA
Received 11 Sept 2026Puxton Park Cowslip Lane Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6AH
Received 11 Sept 202621 Highdale Road Clevedon BS21 7LW
Received 11 Sept 2026Monaghan Mushrooms Farm Stock Lane Langford
Received 10 Sept 2026Land To North Of Rectory Farm Chescombe Road Yatton
Received 11 Sept 202693 Dabinett Drive Sandford Winscombe BS25 5AF
Received 11 Sept 2026Land To The West Of The Little Grange Brockley Way Claverham BS49 4PA
Received 3 Sept 202640 Moorcroft Road Hutton Weston-super-Mare BS24 9SE
Received 11 Sept 2026Little Batch Grib Lane Blagdon BS40 7SA
Received 14 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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