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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.
3,744 approved · 548 refused · 405 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Manor Road Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7JZ
Received 23 Jan 2023Middleton Aggregates Limited Offices Mill Drove Blackborough End King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1SW
Received 20 Jan 2023Common Farm Main Road West Bilney KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE32 1HW
Received 23 Jan 2023Stoke Ferry Timber Ltd Boughton Road North Stoke Ferry KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE33 9BF
Received 24 Jan 2023Nelson House 113 Hay Green Road South Terrington St Clement King's Lynn Norfolk PE34 4PU
Received 24 Jan 202315 Railway Road Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9DX
Received 24 Jan 2023Avondale 274 Smeeth Road Marshland St James Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8ES
Received 23 Jan 2023Agricultural Barn N of Low Marsh Meadows Marsh Road Outwell Norfolk
Received 23 Jan 20232 Manor Corner Cottage Common Lane Gayton Thorpe Norfolk PE32 1WL
Received 25 Jan 2023Mays Farm Cottage Moyses Bank Marshland St James Norfolk PE14 8HD
Received 25 Jan 202328 All Saints Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5AD
Received 25 Jan 202320 Rowan Close Watlington KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE33 0UG
Received 25 Jan 202339 Feltwell Road Southery Downham Market Norfolk PE38 0NR
Received 25 Jan 20231 Rill Close South Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3QG
Received 25 Jan 2023104 West Street North Creake Fakenham Norfolk NR21 9LH
Received 25 Jan 2023Midway Lodge High Street Fincham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9EL
Received 25 Jan 2023Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gayton Road Queen Elizabeth Hospital Site King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4ET
Received 23 Jan 2023William George Business Park William George Way Blackborough End Norfolk
Received 23 Jan 2023Staithe House Wells Road Burnham Overy Staithe King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8JE
Received 23 Jan 2023Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gayton Road Queen Elizabeth Hospital Site King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4ET
Received 23 Jan 2023Land South of 85 Stow Road Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen Norfolk
Received 26 Jan 2023Agricultural Barn N of Low Marsh Meadows Marsh Road Outwell Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8PR
Received 26 Jan 2023Drain From Bexwell To Bury St Edmunds 562498 303555 Norfolk
Received 26 Jan 2023Coral Lodge Wormegay Road Blackborough End King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1SG
Received 26 Jan 2023Records 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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