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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,647 approved · 524 refused · 396 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Apr 2018 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
BCKLWN Land E of Losinga Road W of Waterside And N of Salters Road King's Lynn Norfolk
Received 4 Nov 2022Brownsea 44 Beach Road Holme next The Sea Norfolk PE36 6LG
Received 7 Nov 20221 Nelson Avenue Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9JJ
Received 9 Nov 2022Flood Protection And Sluice At Cut Off Channel Environment Agency Denver Complex Sluice Road Denver Norfolk
Received 7 Nov 2022Anvil Main Road Three Holes Norfolk PE14 9JR
Received 14 Nov 2022Land S of 32 And N of Spring View 32 Common Road Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7PF
Received 3 Nov 2022Land East of Melody 38 Common Road Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7PF
Received 17 Nov 2022Foxhall Farm Harps Hall Road Walton Highway Norfolk PE14 7DL
Received 17 Nov 2022Land S of The Stables Paddock Lane Fincham Norfolk
Received 18 Nov 2022Northfield House 24 North Street Burnham Market Norfolk PE31 8HG
Received 18 Nov 2022Northfield House 24 North Street Burnham Market Norfolk PE31 8HG
Received 18 Nov 2022Kemal Chalk Road Walpole St Peter Norfolk PE14 7PN
Received 21 Nov 2022Land Rear of Little Eastfield Barn Lynn Road Walsoken Norfolk PE14 7AL
Received 23 Nov 2022Straw Hall Farm Birchfield Road Nordelph DOWNHAM MARKET Norfolk PE38 0BT
Received 23 Nov 2022West Wing Ivy House High Street Fincham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9EH
Received 23 Nov 2022117 Wootton Road Gaywood King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4DJ
Received 23 Nov 20228 School Road Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7DE
Received 25 Nov 2022127 Norfolk Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1AP
Received 25 Nov 2022127 Norfolk Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1AP
Received 25 Nov 202212 Davy Field Lynn Road Ingoldisthorpe KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 6TR
Received 29 Nov 2022Crandleford House 82 Chapel Road Pott Row King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1BP
Received 29 Nov 2022Land N of the Old Post Office Station Road Ten Mile Bank Norfolk
Received 28 Nov 2022The Paddocks Fakenham Road Stanhoe Norfolk PE31 8PX
Received 30 Nov 2022Land South of Sluice Road Denver Norfolk
Received 30 Nov 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 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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