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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.
3,763 approved · 549 refused · 409 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Vicarage House Church Road Wereham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9AP
Received 30 Jan 2023Smiths The Bakers 1 High Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1BX
Received 30 Jan 2023Land S of Denver Hill N of Southern Bypass E of Nightingale Lane Downham Market Norfolk
Received 25 Jan 2023The Dabbling Duck 11 Abbey Road Great Massingham King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 2HN
Received 25 Jan 2023Old White Horse Station Road East Rudham Norfolk PE31 8RB
Received 31 Jan 2023Anchorage House Broomsthorpe Road East Rudham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8RG
Received 31 Jan 2023Land On the South West Side of Lynn Road Stoke Ferry Norfolk
Received 30 Jan 2023Furlong Store Furlong Road Stoke Ferry Norfolk
Received 30 Jan 2023Former Three Tunns Public House Land N of Welney Parish Hall And E of Old Bedford Row Bedford Bank Welney Norfolk
Received 31 Jan 2023Bourne End Little Lane Docking King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8NT
Received 31 Jan 2023Burslem House North Street Castle Acre KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE32 2BA
Received 31 Jan 2023The Hyde Broad Lane Brancaster KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8AU
Received 31 Jan 2023Coppice House Broad Lane Brancaster KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8AU
Received 31 Jan 2023TSB 1 - 3 Tuesday Market Place King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1JU
Received 31 Jan 2023Applegarth 30A Lynn Road Castle Rising Norfolk PE31 6AJ
Received 31 Jan 2023BCKLWN Land E of Losinga Road W of Waterside And N of Salters Road King's Lynn Norfolk
Received 26 Jan 2023AX Building 3 Ryston End Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9AX
Received 1 Feb 2023Homefields Basil Road West Dereham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9RP
Received 1 Feb 2023Larkin House 36 Main Road Holme next The Sea Norfolk PE36 6LA
Received 1 Feb 202337 Church Lane Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7HN
Received 1 Feb 2023The Limes 68 Castle Rising Road South Wootton Norfolk PE30 3JD
Received 1 Feb 2023Acrefield House Winch Road Gayton KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE32 1QP
Received 1 Feb 2023Gray's Hall Lynn Road Tilney All Saints Norfolk PE34 4RU
Received 1 Feb 2023Gray's Hall Lynn Road Tilney All Saints Norfolk PE34 4RU
Received 1 Feb 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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