Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
14,307 approved · 1,724 refused · 1,030 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
77 Strode Road Clevedon BS21 6QE
Received 7 Oct 202633 Cherington Road Nailsea BS48 1SW
Received 7 Oct 202627 Castle Road Clevedon BS21 7DA
Received 7 Oct 2026Land Off Shiplate Road Bleadon
Received 7 Oct 2026Yew Tree Farm 48 Venus Street Congresbury BS49 5EZ
Received 7 Oct 2026Land At North End Yatton BS49 4AW
Received 8 Oct 2026Portishead Branch Line Between Portishead In North Somerset And Ashton Junction In Bristol
Received 9 Oct 2026Land To The North Of Junction Of Lyefield Road And Lower Norton Lane Kewstoke
Received 9 Oct 2026Street Record Footpath Pear Tree Avenue Long Ashton
Received 9 Oct 2026All Saints Church Lane Long Ashton
Received 9 Oct 20261 Long Ashton Road Long Ashton BS41 9HW
Received 9 Oct 2026Yatton Rugby Football Club North End Road Yatton Bristol BS49 4AW
Received 9 Oct 20262 Applehayes Rise Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0FD
Received 9 Oct 202679 Walton Road Clevedon BS21 6AW
Received 9 Oct 2026Land To The West Of Redhill (A38) Redhill
Received 12 Oct 2026Rear Of Heathgate, Junction Of Roman Road And Bleadon Hill Celtic Way Bleadon
Received 12 Oct 202623 Rectory Way Yatton BS49 4HQ
Received 12 Oct 2026The Vicarage Station Road Congresbury BS49 5DX
Received 13 Oct 202622 Neva Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1YQ
Received 13 Oct 20263 The Beach Clevedon BS21 7QU
Received 13 Oct 2026Rosapenna Abbots Leigh Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PX
Received 14 Oct 2026Wick Wharf Purn Lane Bleadon
Received 14 Oct 2026Street Record Clevedon Lane Clapton-in-Gordano
Received 13 Oct 2026Fedden Village Nore Road Portishead BS20 8DN
Received 12 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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