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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.
5,121 approved · 692 refused · 544 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Apr 2018 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
124 London Road King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5ES
Received 14 Nov 2025Scotts Cottage Tower Road Burnham Overy Staithe King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8JB
Received 14 Nov 2025The Old Blacksmiths Cottage 1 The Maltings Station Road Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8HA
Received 15 Nov 2025Rough Barn 65 Sluice Road Denver Downham Market Norfolk PE38 0DY
Received 17 Nov 202522 Hall Close Heacham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7JT
Received 17 Nov 2025The Old Bakehouse 2 Old Church Road Snettisham KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 7LX
Received 14 Nov 2025Greenville 14 Lynn Lane Great Massingham King's Lynn Norfolk PE32 2HJ
Received 17 Nov 2025Land SE of 220 The Drove Barroway Drove Norfolk
Received 18 Nov 202553C Railway Road Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9DX
Received 18 Nov 2025Street Record West Drove Link Road Walpole Highway Norfolk
Received 31 Oct 2025Middleton Aggregates Ltd Quarry East Winch Road Blackborough End Norfolk
Received 17 Nov 2025Eastwood Main Road Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AA
Received 17 Nov 2025105 Strickland Close Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7PZ
Received 18 Nov 2025Beckford House 37 West Street North Creake Fakenham Norfolk NR21 9LQ
Received 18 Nov 20253 Saw Mill Road Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AJ
Received 18 Nov 2025Land At E557866 N304517 Highbridge Road Stow Bardolph Norfolk
Received 18 Nov 2025Marsh Farm 6 Marsh Lane Burnham Norton King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8DS
Received 18 Nov 2025The Maltings Station Road Burnham Market Norfolk
Received 19 Nov 2025Street Record Church Close Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen Norfolk
Received 19 Nov 2025Former Cruso & Wilkin Office Waterloo Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1NZ
Received 19 Nov 2025Colts Hall 21 The Green Shouldham Norfolk PE33 0BY
Received 20 Nov 20259 And 10 Main Road Titchwell King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8BB
Received 19 Nov 202513 Manorside Dersingham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 6LE
Received 19 Nov 2025Boughton Cricket Pavilion Wretton Road Boughton Norfolk
Received 19 Nov 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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