New housing in North Somerset Council
We read North Somerset Council's planning register every day. We hold 17,709 of its planning applications going back to 2015, and 83 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 64% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 64% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 17,709
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 70 | 34 | 6 |
| 2025 | 78 | 51 | 16 |
| 2024 | 96 | 67 | 20 |
| 2023 | 92 | 62 | 20 |
| 2022 | 70 | 51 | 11 |
| 2021 | 77 | 54 | 13 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,500 | Land To East Of Wolvershill Road Banwell Request for a formal scoping opinion to determine the scope of an Environmental Impact Assessment for a future application for a proposed residential led mixed-use development (up to 1500 residential dwellings, a… 24/P/0353/EA2 | Decided | 19 Feb 2024 |
| 800 | Land North Of Knightcott Road East And West Of Summer Lane Banwell Request for a formal scoping opinion to determine the scope of an Environmental Impact Assessment for a proposed development of 800no. residential dwellings, up to 6.5ha employment use, public open space and areas of… 24/P/0572/EA2 | Decided | 18 Mar 2024 |
| 650 | Land North Of Banwell West Of Wolvershill Road And East Of Summer Lane Banwell Request for a formal scoping opinion to determine the scope of an Environmental Impact Assessment for a residential-led mixed use development comprising of up to 650 residential dwellings, ancillary retail, community… 24/P/0494/EA2 | Decided | 6 Mar 2024 |
| 500 | Land North Of Farleigh Road Backwell Request for a formal Scoping Opinion to determine the scope of an Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed redevelopment for the erection of around 500no. homes and up to 2 hectares of mixed-use development (use… 25/P/1378/EA2 | Decided | 7 Jul 2025 |
| 410 | Land Off Backwell Common Backwell Request for a formal scoping opinion to determine the information to be provided in an Environmental Statement that will accompany a future planning application for the delivery of a new neighbourhood comprising up to… 25/P/2239/EA2 | Decided | 27 Oct 2025 |
| 400 | Land East And West Of Station Road And Land East Of Chapel Hill Flax Bourton/Backwell Request for a formal Scoping Opinion to determine the scope of an Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed development of land East and West of Flax Bourton for up to 400 homes , across two parcels , including… 26/P/2210/EA2 | Awaiting decision | 26 Oct 2026 |
| 400 | Land At Tower Farm Tower Road Portishead Screening Opinion request to determine as to whether proposed development is EIA development. Residential development of 400no. dwellings, including the provision of community facilities and other associated… 26/P/0300/EA1 | Approved | 10 Feb 2026 |
| 400 | Land South Of Old Banwell Road And North Of Banwell Road Elborough Locking Formal Screening Opinion request to determine as to whether proposed development is EIA development of approximately 400 homes, a community building/mobility hub as well as green and blue infrastructure, biodiversity… 25/P/1282/EA1 | Approved | 23 Jun 2025 |
| 350 | Land At Ashton Hill Farm Weston Road Failand BS8 3US Screening Opinion request to determine as to whether proposed development is EIA development. Works proposed: residential development for up to 350 dwellings including 200 sq. m of Class E floorspace, land reserved for… 25/P/0960/EA1 | Approved | 9 May 2025 |
| 282 | Land North Of Youngwood Lane And East Of Netherton Wood Lane Nailsea Minor material amendment application to Reserved Matters application 22/P/1558/RM (reserved matters application for access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the erection of 282 no. dwellings pursuant to… 24/P/1047/MMA | Approved | 23 May 2024 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Abbots Leigh
- Avonmouth
- Backwell
- Banwell
- Barrow Gurney
- Blagdon
- Bleadon
- Cambridge Batch
- Churchill (North Somerset)
- Clapton in Gordano
- Cleeve
- Clevedon
- Congresbury
- Downside
- Dundry
- Failand
- Felton (North Somerset)
- Flax Bourton
- Hutton (North Somerset)
- Kewstoke
- Leigh Woods
- Locking
- Long Ashton
- Lower Langford
- Nailsea
- Pill and Easton-in-Gordano
- Portishead
- Redhill (North Somerset)
- Stock (North Somerset)
- Stone-edge Batch
- Tickenham
- West Hill (North Somerset)
- Weston-super-Mare
- West Wick
- Winford (North Somerset)
- Winscombe and Sandford
- Wrington
- Yatton
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: North Somerset Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.