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As well as general consultations you can see our Planning Policy consultations. These are consultations which form part of our Local Development Framework, formerly known as the Local Plan, covering large-scale planning issues.

Current Consultations

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Sign up for the North Somerset Citizens' Panel (Your Voice) Open Featured

Are you interested in becoming part of the North Somerset Citizens' Panel? We need our residents to regularly share their views and ideas on a wide range of issues.

Open from 07 Sep 2020 to 01 Sep 2022
New Public Space Protection Orders Open Featured

We are consulting on proposed new Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO) to allow the council and partner agencies to deal more effectively with a wider range of anti-social behaviour issues in our public spaces.

Open from 01 Dec 2020 to 03 Jan 2021
Active Travel Strategy Open Featured

Our Draft Active Travel Strategy is a 10-year plan which aims to make walking and cycling and other forms of active travel a more natural transport choice for residents and visitors to North Somerset.

Open from 05 Nov 2020 to 17 Dec 2020
North Somerset Local Plan 2038: Challenges and Choices Part 2: Choices for the Future Open Featured

A Local Plan sets out where development can and cannot take place and ensures we get the right type of development in the right place with the right services and infrastructure – and avoids unplanned development. This document is about the broad approaches to where new development might take place and presents four potential approaches for discussion. This consultation follows on form the Challenges consultation that took place in the summer.

Open from 02 Nov 2020 to 14 Dec 2020
North Somerset Local Plan 2038 Challenges and Choices Part 1: Challenges for the Future Closed Featured

A Local Plan sets out where developments can and cannot take place and ensures we get the right type of development in the right place with the right services and infrastructure – and avoids unplanned development. This document is the first stage in preparing a Local Plan and sets out the challenges facing North Somerset.

Open from 22 Jul 2020 to 02 Sep 2020
Consultation on School Funding Arrangements for the 2021-22 Financial Year Open

This 'Fair Funding' consultation is to ask you what you think about the North Somerset Strategic Schools Forum plans for how the 'minor national funding arrangements' will be introduced in North Somerset. It will mainly be of interest to school heads, heads of governors and bursars at schools, though anyone is welcome to take part. Taking part does require you to read and understand the consultation document. If you are answering on behalf of an organisation (e.g. a school) we require a single official response from your organisation. We will publish a list of which organisations have taken part but will not attribute any responses to any named organisations. So, once you have read that document, please let us know your views about the recommendations and how they can be implemented using this online questionnaire, before 6pm on 7 January 2020. The questionnaire is designed to be accessible to all. If you need it in another format, contact Emma Whitehead

Open from 26 Nov 2020 to 07 Jan 2021
Proposed expansion of Ravenswood School Open

North Somerset Council is consulting on the possible expansion of Ravenswood School from a 108 to a 134-place school, formally with effect from September 2021.

Open from 20 Nov 2020 to 18 Dec 2020
Relevant Area for Consultation on Admission Arrangements 2022-24 Closed

Please see our proposed definition of the area we plan to use: the area defining which schools we consult with about proposed school admission arrangements for academic years 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Open from 07 Sep 2020 to 19 Oct 2020
The Uplands, Nailsea Closed

Comments are invited on the proposed development at The Uplands, Nailsea. Please read the attached consultation document and email comments to uplands@n-somerset.gov.uk

Open from 24 Jun 2020 to 10 Jul 2020
Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on voluntary, community and social enterprises in North Somerset Closed

North Somerset Council and Voluntary Action North Somerset (VANS) are working together to support our community’s response to the current pandemic. We would like to develop an understanding about the impact that COVID 19 has had on voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations both now and as we move forward from the current crisis to recovery.

Open from 28 May 2020 to 11 Jun 2020