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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.
4,911 approved · 672 refused · 516 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Apr 2018 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Breton 6 New Road North Runcton King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0RA
Received 11 Apr 2025Wynbury 9 Bridge Road Stoke Ferry King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9TB
Received 11 Apr 2025Maipop Farm Biggs Road Walsoken Norfolk PE14 7BD
Received 11 Apr 202517 Tyndale North Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3XD
Received 14 Apr 2025The Nar Ouse Regeneration Area (NORA) Wisbech Road King's Lynn Norfolk
Received 11 Apr 2025Street Record Green Lane South Wootton Norfolk
Received 10 Apr 2025Tanrose Lodge Well Creek Road Outwell Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8RZ
Received 9 Apr 202526 Smeeth Road Marshland St James Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8JF
Received 14 Apr 2025Building And Land SE of The Poplars The Poplars Long Road Terrington St Clement Norfolk
Received 14 Apr 2025The Ship Hotel Main Road Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AP
Received 14 Apr 20257 The Lovells Emneth Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8DW
Received 14 Apr 2025Clark's Paddock 154 Salts Road West Walton WISBECH Norfolk PE14 7ED
Received 14 Apr 202530 St Benets Grove South Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3TQ
Received 14 Apr 2025Waterside Cottage 10 Common Drove Northwold Thetford Norfolk IP26 5LD
Received 14 Apr 2025Orchard House School Road St John's Fen End Terrington St John Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7SJ
Received 15 Apr 2025Lath Mansion 15 Nelson Street King's Lynn Norfolk
Received 15 Apr 2025Two In One Church Lane Boughton King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9AQ
Received 15 Apr 2025Land East of 11 To 37 Elm High Road Emneth Norfolk
Received 15 Apr 2025Jalna 62 Smeeth Road Marshland St James Wisbech Norfolk PE14 8JF
Received 14 Apr 2025Land South of Applegate House Walnut Road Walpole St Peter Norfolk
Received 14 Apr 2025Meadow View Oxborough Road Stoke Ferry King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9SY
Received 14 Apr 2025Terrington St John Methodist Church Ely Row Terrington St John Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7RS
Received 15 Apr 202565 High Road Tilney cum Islington KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE34 3BL
Received 16 Apr 2025Land S of 28-29 St Peters Road Upwell Norfolk
Received 16 Apr 2025Records 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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