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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.
4,260 approved · 609 refused · 452 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Park Land South of Hall Farm Sedgeford Road Docking King's Lynn PE31 8LJ
Received 1 Jun 2023Forge House Stanhoe Road Docking King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8NJ
Received 15 Sept 2023Maltrow Station Road Hillington King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 6DE
Received 15 Sept 202317 Fennel Crescent Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9UR
Received 15 Sept 2023Red Herrings Lane Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8DW
Received 15 Sept 2023Country House 30A Low Road South Wootton KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE30 3LF
Received 15 Sept 2023Fairacres 56 Castle Rising Road South Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3JD
Received 17 Sept 2023Marsh House Cross Lane Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AE
Received 11 Sept 202374 Lynn Road Southery Downham Market Norfolk PE38 0HT
Received 12 Sept 2023Manor Barn 1 Bircham Road Snettisham KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 7NF
Received 18 Sept 2023Timbers Lynn Road Fincham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9HE
Received 18 Sept 20238 Folgate Lane Walpole St Andrew Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7HY
Received 18 Sept 2023222 Main Road Clenchwarton King's Lynn Norfolk PE34 4AD
Received 18 Sept 202392A Smeeth Road Marshland St James WISBECH Norfolk PE14 8JG
Received 19 Sept 2023Emily Cottage 27 Kirkgate Holme next The Sea Norfolk PE36 6LH
Received 19 Sept 2023Field House 47 Gayton Road Gaywood King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4EF
Received 5 Sept 2023Land NE of 5 Eye Lane And S of The Bungalow Fakenham Road Fakenham Road East Rudham Norfolk
Received 20 Sept 2023Sunnyside 50 Church Road Wimbotsham King's Lynn Norfolk PE34 3QG
Received 20 Sept 2023Street Record Saxon Way Wormegay Norfolk
Received 20 Sept 20234 Harbour View Terrace Main Road Brancaster Staithe Norfolk PE31 8BY
Received 20 Sept 202314 Methwold Road Northwold Norfolk IP26 5LN
Received 20 Sept 2023The Hall West Road Shouldham Thorpe King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0DP
Received 20 Sept 2023Barn Adjacent To Lode Hall Silt Road Three Holes Norfolk PE14 9JW
Received 20 Sept 202334 John Morton Crescent Great Massingham King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 2HE
Received 20 Sept 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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