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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 Great Yarmouth Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
19,474 approved · 2,743 refused · 1,195 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Apr 1995 to 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
6 Eden Place Northgate Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1BQ
Received 29 Mar 201212 Waveney Drive Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9JU
Received 13 Sept 202241 Victoria Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Mar 2001234 Brasenose Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7EB
Received 24 Oct 2011Elm Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth (The Garages)
Received 28 May 2002Munnings Court Morton Peto Rd Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0LT
Received 7 Nov 2005Prospect House Main Road Ormesby St Michael NR29 3LN
Received 1 Aug 201326 Heather Gardens Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9PP
Received 26 Nov 1999Hollies Farm 1 Land at Holles Farm High Road Great Yarmouth NR31 9QR
Received 27 Nov 202310 The Paddock Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Nov 200620 West Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Dec 199540 Pier Plain Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PG
Received 26 Mar 2025Merrivale Model Village Marine Parade Great Yarmouth NR30 3JG
Received 10 Feb 2005Woodcot Stepshort Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Jul 2008Trafalgar College Thamesfield Way GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 0DN
Received 5 Jan 20224 Manorfield Close Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3RF
Received 28 Sept 201210 Collingwood Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4LR NR30 4LR
Received 23 Jan 2006Palmyra (adjacent) Main Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Jun 2001Boat House Poultry Farm Main Road Filby Great Yarmouth NR29 3AA
Received 18 Oct 2004Yarmouth Business Park Thamesfield Way/Pasteur Road Great Yarmouth (Unit 5)
Received 2 Dec 2003Bure Marine Ltd Breydon Road Cobholm Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Jan 1996171 King Street Alliance and Leicester Great Yarmouth NR30 2PA
Received 28 Mar 200369 Beatty Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4BG
Received 14 Apr 1997Munnings Court Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth (lorry park) (adjo MDF Transport premises)
Received 9 Apr 2001Records 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 Great Yarmouth Borough Council, 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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