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North Somerset Council planning intelligence
Local Plan stage, adopted plan, plan period and published housing position for North Somerset Council, read from the national planning data platform on 20/09/2026.
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Local Plan stage
Regulation 19 — publication (pre-submission) consultation
Generally too late for new allocations; representations must argue soundness.
Five-year supply
Data currently unavailable
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Housing Delivery Test
64%
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Annual housing requirement
1,049homes pa
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Plan-making and delivery position
How favourable is this authority's position for promoting land right now?
- Local Plan progressRegulation 19 — publication (pre-submission) consultation
The authority has published the plan it intends to submit. Representations are on soundness and legal compliance rather than new site options — the plan is approaching the end of the process.
- Five-year housing land supplyData currently unavailable
No supply statement is published in our sources for this authority.
- Housing Delivery Test64% delivered
Below 75% — the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies.
- Evidence coverage held91%
3 planning documents indexed for this authority.
What does this mean?
Read the plan stage first: allocation routes narrow considerably once a plan reaches examination.
Local Plan stage
Regulation 19 — publication (pre-submission) consultation
The authority has published the plan it intends to submit. Representations are on soundness and legal compliance rather than new site options — the plan is approaching the end of the process.
Submitting land: Generally too late for new allocations; representations must argue soundness.
Published position
- Local Plan stage
- Regulation 19 — publication (pre-submission) consultation
- Adopted development plan
- North Somerset Core Strategy (Consolidated)
- Emerging Local Plan
- North Somerset Local Plan 2040
- Plan period
- 2006 to 2026
- Housing figure in the plan document
- 20,985 homes
- Annual housing requirement
- 1049 homes a year
- Five-year housing land supply
- Data currently unavailable
- Housing Delivery Test
- 64%
- Plan documents held nationally
- 3
The authority has published the plan it intends to submit. Representations are on soundness and legal compliance rather than new site options — the plan is approaching the end of the process.
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2017-01-10
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2017-01-10
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets · dated 2026-08-17
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)
Where a figure has not been published in our sources it is shown as data currently unavailable. It is never inferred or estimated.
Development pressure & opportunity outlook
A 0-100 index of how much pressure North Somerset Council is under to release new land, built only from published evidence, followed by what that evidence means for promoting land here over the next 12-24 months.
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What this means for a landowner
The plan stage tells you whether allocation is still realistically available. Early stages — evidence gathering and Regulation 18 — are when sites are selected, so a Call for Sites submission has the greatest effect. Once a plan reaches Regulation 19 or examination, the practical routes narrow to soundness representations, the next plan review, or an application relying on the authority's land supply position.
The housing figures matter for the same reason. An authority that cannot demonstrate a five-year supply, or that falls below the Housing Delivery Test thresholds, applies the presumption in favour of sustainable development differently — which is what practitioners mean by the tilted balance.
Common questions
- What stage is the North Somerset Council Local Plan at?
- Regulation 19 — publication (pre-submission) consultation. The authority has published the plan it intends to submit. Representations are on soundness and legal compliance rather than new site options — the plan is approaching the end of the process.
- Can I still submit land to North Somerset Council?
- Generally too late for new allocations; representations must argue soundness.
- Can North Somerset Council demonstrate a five-year housing land supply?
- No five-year housing land supply figure is currently published in our sources for North Somerset Council, so the position is reported as unavailable rather than assumed.
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This assessment is an automated planning intelligence report based on available public data. It does not constitute planning, legal, valuation or other professional advice and does not guarantee that planning permission will be granted.