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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.
4,695 approved · 655 refused · 499 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Apr 2018 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ken Hill Farms & Estate Heacham Bottom Farm Lynn Road Heacham KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 7PQ
Received 17 Oct 2024Primrose House 1A Netherby Drive Emneth WISBECH Norfolk PE14 0DR
Received 17 Oct 202419A Park Lane Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9SH
Received 17 Oct 202445 Marram Way Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7AH
Received 18 Oct 2024BCKLWN Land E of Losinga Road W of Waterside And N of Salters Road King's Lynn Norfolk
Received 17 Oct 2024Ward Gethin Archer 9 Tuesday Market Place King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1JN
Received 17 Oct 2024The Body Shop 52 High Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1BE
Received 17 Oct 2024The Body Shop 52 High Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1BE
Received 17 Oct 2024Land East of 11 To 37 Elm High Road Emneth Norfolk
Received 17 Oct 202420 Hall Orchards Middleton King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1RY
Received 18 Oct 2024SJC Trailers Ltd 6 New Road Crimplesham KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE33 9FH
Received 17 Oct 20244 - 5 Market Place Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9DE
Received 18 Oct 2024Ivy House West Drove South Walpole Highway Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7RA
Received 18 Oct 2024Church Farm Docking Road Fring KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 6SE
Received 18 Oct 2024Heating & Pumbing Services 5 Church Road Walsoken WISBECH Norfolk PE13 3RB
Received 18 Oct 2024Skyfall 1 New Road Burnham Overy Staithe King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8JD
Received 18 Oct 202423 Springvale Gayton King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1QY
Received 18 Oct 2024Bradmere House Main Road Burnham Norton King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8DU
Received 18 Oct 202442 Westgate Hunstanton Norfolk PE36 5EL
Received 18 Oct 2024Fairview Cottage Docking Road Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8DN
Received 19 Oct 2024Waterside Lodge 36 Pentney Lakes Common Road Pentney King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1LE
Received 21 Oct 202471 Howdale Road Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9AH
Received 21 Oct 20243 Priory Lane King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5DU
Received 21 Oct 20242 Norton Hill Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7LZ
Received 21 Oct 2024Records 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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