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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.
5,028 approved · 681 refused · 535 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land SW of Frenchs Road Walpole St Peter Norfolk
Received 19 Jun 2025Annex 1 Sea Lane Old Hunstanton Hunstanton Norfolk PE36 6JN
Received 19 Jun 202564 The Broadway Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7JJ
Received 19 Jun 2025Land South of 48 Grimston Road South Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3HX
Received 19 Jun 2025Birkwood Station Road Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8HA
Received 19 Jun 2025Brink House 46 Lynn Road Shouldham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0BW
Received 20 Jun 2025Land South of 100 Churchgate Way Terrington St Clement Norfolk
Received 20 Jun 20259 And 10 Main Road Titchwell King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8BB
Received 20 Jun 20259 Coronation Avenue Nordelph Downham Market Norfolk PE38 0BN
Received 20 Jun 2025Land At E567154 N316164 Norwich Road Middleton Norfolk
Received 20 Jun 2025Holly Dene 1 Baptist Road Upwell Wisbech Norfolk PE14 9EU
Received 20 Jun 20255 Branodunum Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AL
Received 20 Jun 2025Oak Bungalow Oxborough Road Stoke Ferry King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9TA
Received 20 Jun 2025Lowood Herrings Lane Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8DW
Received 20 Jun 2025Paston House 3 Common Lane South Wootton King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 3HW
Received 20 Jun 2025Bluebell Lodge St Andrews Lane Congham King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 1DU
Received 23 Jun 20252 Griffin Close Walsoken WISBECH Norfolk PE14 7BW
Received 20 Jun 2025Angles Lane Bungalow Station Road Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8HA
Received 20 Jun 202510 Strickland Avenue Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7PY
Received 23 Jun 2025Methodist Church Station Road Burnham Market Norfolk
Received 23 Jun 2025Applegate Nurseries Chalk Road Walpole St Peter WISBECH Norfolk PE14 7PG
Received 24 Jun 2025Malling Lodge High Road Saddlebow King's Lynn Norfolk PE34 3AR
Received 23 Jun 2025Malling Lodge High Road Saddlebow King's Lynn Norfolk PE34 3AR
Received 23 Jun 2025Card Zone 81 High Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1BB
Received 23 Jun 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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