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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.
5,109 approved · 691 refused · 544 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Opposite Walpole Sub Station Walpole Bank Walpole St Andrew Norfolk
Received 15 Sept 2025Land Opposite Walpole Sub Station Walpole Bank Walpole St Andrew Norfolk
Received 15 Sept 202513 Valingers Road King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 5HD
Received 15 Sept 2025Water End 6 Bircham Road Fring King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 6SH
Received 15 Sept 20257 Wingfields Downham Market Norfolk PE38 9AR
Received 15 Sept 2025Floral Farm Osborne Road Walsoken Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7AA
Received 10 Sept 2025Fiddamans Barn London Street Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AS
Received 17 Sept 20254 Sutherland Cottages London Street Brancaster King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8AS
Received 16 Sept 202546 Norton Street Burnham Norton King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8DR
Received 16 Sept 2025Autoville Lynn Road Wereham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9BD
Received 16 Sept 202518 John Davis Way Watlington King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0TD
Received 16 Sept 2025The White House 22 Green Lane Tottenhill King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0RT
Received 16 Sept 2025Waterside Cottage Little Lane Docking KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8NT
Received 17 Sept 2025151 Wootton Road Gaywood King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 4DR
Received 17 Sept 202511 Walkers Close Creake Road Burnham Market King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 8EP
Received 17 Sept 2025Old Methodist Chapel Downham Road Fincham Norfolk
Received 15 Sept 2025Land West of Knights Hill Village Grimston Road South Wootton Norfolk
Received 17 Sept 2025White House Farm Lynn Road Walton Highway Wisbech Norfolk PE14 7DB
Received 18 Sept 2025Holden Renault Downham Road Crimplesham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9DG
Received 17 Sept 2025Holden Renault Downham Road Crimplesham King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 9DG
Received 17 Sept 202517 Woodlands Court Walsoken WISBECH Norfolk PE13 3SD
Received 17 Sept 2025Foundry House 17 North Street Burnham Market KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 8HG
Received 17 Sept 20252 Fuchsia Cottages West Road Shouldham Thorpe King's Lynn Norfolk PE33 0DP
Received 17 Sept 2025Red Barn Farmhouse Bircham Road Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 6SB
Received 17 Sept 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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