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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
14,291 approved · 1,722 refused · 1,029 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Manor Way Failand BS8 3UY
Received 22 Sept 2026Coach House Mews 3 Bracken Hill North Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PL
Received 22 Sept 2026Maytree Sandmead Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5QG
Received 22 Sept 202631 Treefield Road Clevedon BS21 6JD
Received 22 Sept 202655 Boulevard Weston-super-Mare BS23 1PG
Received 22 Sept 2026Clevedon School Valley Road Clevedon BS21 6AH
Received 22 Sept 202618 Dabinett Drive Sandford Winscombe North Somerset BS25 5AE
Received 22 Sept 2026Pegasus Court 83 Silver Street Nailsea BS48 2BP
Received 22 Sept 2026Villa Rosa Shrubbery Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2JB
Received 22 Sept 202640 Station Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XY
Received 22 Sept 2026Land At Wyndhurst Farm Langford Road Langford
Received 22 Sept 202690 Rayens Cross Road Long Ashton BS41 9DY
Received 22 Sept 20263 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AS
Received 23 Sept 202640 Drakes Way Portishead BS20 6XA
Received 23 Sept 2026Monaghan Mushrooms Farm Stock Lane Langford
Received 24 Sept 2026Kent Cottage Kent Road Congresbury BS49 5BA
Received 24 Sept 202654 George Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 3AS
Received 24 Sept 2026Wistaria Cottage Naish Lane Barrow Gurney BS48 3ST
Received 24 Sept 202657 Argyle Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS23 3RQ
Received 24 Sept 20263 Boulevard Weston-super-Mare BS23 1NN
Received 24 Sept 2026Orchard Bank Caravan And Motorhome Park Streamcross Claverham
Received 24 Sept 2026Land At Kenn Road Yatton
Received 24 Sept 20262 Mendip View Hodders Lane Wick St Lawrence Weston-super-Mare BS22 7YG
Received 25 Sept 2026Flat 2 Highbury Court Highbury Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2DR
Received 25 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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