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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.
4,052 approved · 582 refused · 434 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Apr 2018 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ash Hill Farm Wood Hall Estate Woodhall Road Hilgay Norfolk
Received 13 Jun 2023Sovereign Way Trafalgar Industrial Estate Downham Market Norfolk
Received 13 Jun 20231 Yeomans Close Docking KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8QX
Received 13 Jun 20231 Yeomans Close Docking KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8QX
Received 13 Jun 2023Helian House Walnut Road Walpole St Peter Norfolk PE14 7NR
Received 13 Jun 2023Land Adjacent Starbucks Kellard Place King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5DG
Received 13 Jun 2023The Vicarage 72 Church Road Emneth Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8AF
Received 13 Jun 2023Heacham Hall 58 Hunstanton Road Heacham KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 7JS
Received 14 Jun 2023Howards Barn Creake Road Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8EN
Received 13 Jun 2023The Cottage Broomsthorpe Road East Rudham KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8RG
Received 13 Jun 2023Westgate Cottage 37 Westgate Holme next The Sea Norfolk PE36 6LF
Received 14 Jun 2023Church Hill Farmhouse Church Hill Farm Wells Road Burnham Overy Town Norfolk PE31 8HU
Received 19 May 2023Land S of 1 To 18 W of Foxes Lair Narborough Road Pentney Norfolk
Received 17 May 2023Land S of 14 And SE of 18 Cottons Head Outwell Norfolk
Received 17 May 2023Dairy Farm Tower Road Burnham Overy Staithe King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8JB
Received 13 Jun 2023Rose Hall Farm Walpole Bank Walpole St Andrew Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7JD
Received 14 Jun 2023Thornleigh 29 West Winch Road West Winch King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0NQ
Received 14 Jun 20233A Ashdale Park Old Hunstanton HUNSTANTON Norfolk PE36 6EQ
Received 15 Jun 2023The Old Chapel Main Street Welney Wisbech Norfolk PE14 9RB
Received 14 Jun 2023The Cottage Docking Road Burnham Market Norfolk
Received 14 Jun 2023Cattistock 83 Nursery Lane South Wootton Norfolk PE30 3NB
Received 15 Jun 202342 Hockham Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5LZ
Received 14 Jun 2023Burn Cottage Back Lane South Creake Fakenham Norfolk NR21 9PP
Received 14 Jun 2023Deanscroft 7 West Winch Road West Winch King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0NF
Received 17 May 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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