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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.
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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14,291 approved · 1,722 refused · 1,029 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Mead Lane Sandford
Received 30 Sept 2026Airport Parking Behind Oakwood House Potters Hill Felton
Received 30 Sept 2026Hillside Station Road Blagdon BS40 7TB
Received 30 Sept 202654 Rippleside Road Clevedon BS21 7JX
Received 30 Sept 2026Land East Of Backwell Hill Road Backwell
Received 30 Sept 2026Rolstone Manor Farm West Rolstone Road Hewish BS24 6UR
Received 1 Oct 2026The Club House Churchill Memorial Hall Ladymead Lane Langford Winscombe BS25 5NH
Received 1 Oct 20265 Edward Road Clevedon BS21 7DP
Received 1 Oct 202616 Glenwood Rise Portishead BS20 8EH
Received 1 Oct 20261 Warren Lane Long Ashton BS41 9DA
Received 2 Oct 2026Elm Farm Clevedon Road Tickenham
Received 2 Oct 2026The Summerhouse Cuckoo Lane Wraxall BS48 1PJ
Received 2 Oct 202663 Cambridge Road Clevedon BS21 7BN
Received 2 Oct 2026Harewood Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SB
Received 2 Oct 2026Bottreaux Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SD
Received 2 Oct 2026Land On South Side Of Bransby Way West Of Herons Moor School Weston-super-Mare BS24 7BW
Received 2 Oct 2026Woodleigh Cottage Vicarage Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PH
Received 2 Oct 2026Land To The South Of Locking Head Drove Locking
Received 2 Oct 202661 Clevedon Road Failand BS8 3UL
Received 5 Oct 202621 Clarence Grove Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 4AG
Received 5 Oct 202655 Old Church Road Uphill Weston-super-Mare BS23 4XL
Received 5 Oct 202623 Chescombe Road Yatton BS49 4EN
Received 5 Oct 202632 Glebe Road Long Ashton BS41 9LH
Received 5 Oct 2026Yatton Rugby Football Club North End Road Yatton BS49 4AW
Received 5 Oct 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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