Several entries on Bristol-area planning lists are not planning applications, council notices show

Weekly planning lists published by North Somerset and South Gloucestershire councils include a run of entries that are not planning applications, even though they sit on the same registers as formal planning items.

North Somerset Council's list records a screening opinion request for the Monaghan Mushrooms site on Stock Lane, Langford, covering a Section 73 application to vary an approved outline permission and a forthcoming full application for up to 50 dwellings; the council flags the entry as not a planning application [1][4]. A fuller description on the list sets out proposed Phase 1 works including demolition and site clearance, up to 120 dwellings, 1,400 sq m of flexible employment floorspace, 830 sq m of floorspace tied to the existing mushroom farm operation, a 420 sq m children's day nursery and a 200 sq m cafe, alongside parking, drainage and landscaping, with Phase 2 adding up to 50 further homes [4].

The same North Somerset list carries two notifications under the Electronic Communications Code for fixed-line broadband poles: an 11m wooden pole on land opposite Lilymead Farm, Dolemoor Lane, Congresbury, and a 10m wooden pole on land opposite Mandalay, Bridgwater Road, Winscombe, each marked as not a planning application [2][5].

South Gloucestershire Council's list records a consent under Section 37 of the Electricity Act 1989 to replace an existing single pole with a double (H) pole on the grass verge at Tanhouse Lane, Yate [3].

Because these items proceed through screening, notification or consent routes rather than as planning applications, none of them currently requires a planning decision from the councils, although they signal forthcoming development and infrastructure work across the Bristol area [1][2][3][4][5]. At a national level, the Planning Inspectorate separately publishes official statistics tracking performance against ministerial measures for planning decisions [6].