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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14,291 approved · 1,722 refused · 1,029 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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6 Drakes Way Portishead BS20 6LB
Received 25 Sept 2026Princes Motto Barrow Street Barrow Gurney BS48 3RY
Received 25 Sept 2026Telecommunication Station Grange Road Uphill
Received 24 Sept 2026Land To The North Of Junction Of Lyefield Road And Lower Norton Lane Kewstoke
Received 25 Sept 202651 Severn Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1DP
Received 25 Sept 2026Maysgreen Farm Maysgreen Lane Hewish Weston-super-Mare BS24 6TR
Received 28 Sept 202614A The Centre Weston-super-Mare BS23 1UW
Received 28 Sept 2026Land East Of Regilbury Court Benches Lane Winford
Received 28 Sept 20261 Clover Hill Way Barrow Gurney BS48 3EB
Received 28 Sept 2026Land East Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Land North Of Metrobus, Ashton Vale Ashton Road Long Ashton
Received 28 Sept 2026The Old Manse Chapel Hill Wrington BS40 5NJ
Received 28 Sept 202619 Clynder Grove Clevedon BS21 7DF
Received 28 Sept 202630 Henley Park Yatton BS49 4JH
Received 29 Sept 20263C Ridgeway Road Long Ashton BS41 9EX
Received 29 Sept 2026Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 29 Sept 20267 Denny Close Portishead BS20 8BN
Received 28 Sept 2026Yew Corner Walton Bay Walton-in-Gordano Clevedon BS21 7AZ
Received 28 Sept 202612 Addiscombe Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4LT
Received 29 Sept 2026Mabots Orchard Old Banwell Road Winscombe
Received 29 Sept 202658 The Lynch Winscombe BS25 1AR
Received 30 Sept 2026Albany Lodge Guest House 9 Clevedon Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1DA
Received 30 Sept 2026Cadbury Farm 29 Cadbury Farm Road Yatton BS49 4HW
Received 30 Sept 2026Church Hayes Drive Nailsea
Received 29 Sept 2026Land Adjacent To San Anton Streamcross Claverham BS49 4QD
Received 30 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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