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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.
4,156 approved · 592 refused · 441 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Manorside Dersingham Norfolk PE31 6LE
Received 2 Jun 2023Riverside Business Centre Cross Bank Road King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 2HD
Received 2 Jun 202373 Corbyn Shaw Road King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4UL
Received 2 Jun 2023Rear of 19 St James Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5DA
Received 6 Jul 2023Whaleback Burnham Road Stanhoe KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8QD
Received 5 Jul 2023135 Wootton Road Gaywood King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4DR
Received 5 Jul 2023Heacham Manor 90 Hunstanton Road Heacham Norfolk
Received 5 Jul 2023Castle Hotel Paradise Road Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9HF
Received 5 Jul 2023Red Cat Hotel Station Road North Wootton KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE30 3QH
Received 5 Jul 20233 Reeves Avenue King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3DJ
Received 5 Jul 202320 Folgate Road Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7BN
Received 6 Jul 20238, 10 And 12 Carters Field Way Marshland St James Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8EU
Received 8 Jun 2023Potters Ridge Snettisham House St Thomas Lane Snettisham Norfolk PE31 7RZ
Received 7 Jun 2023Potters Ridge Snettisham House St Thomas Lane Snettisham Norfolk PE31 7RZ
Received 7 Jun 2023Cricket Pavilion Church Lane Great Bircham Norfolk
Received 6 Jul 2023Land N of Fairview Angle Road Outwell Norfolk
Received 7 Jul 20234 Courtyard Barns Station Road Docking Norfolk PE31 8NZ
Received 6 Jul 2023LeisureGrow Products Ltd (Old Gardam Site) Clenchwarton Road West Lynn King's Lynn Norfolk
Received 7 Jul 202357 Low Road Grimston King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1AF
Received 9 Jun 202321 Gravelhill Lane West Winch King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0QG
Received 9 Jun 202310 Homefields Road Hunstanton Norfolk PE36 5HJ
Received 9 Jun 2023The House On The Green Ling Common Road North Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3RE
Received 7 Jul 2023Wootton Rectory 47 Castle Rising Road South Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3JA
Received 7 Jul 202319 S-Bend Lynn Road Walsoken WISBECH Norfolk PE14 7AP
Received 7 Jul 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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