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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.
19,532 approved · 2,758 refused · 1,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Row 60 Howard Street South GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 11 Jan 201735 Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BW NR31 7BW
Received 27 Feb 2008Pontins Holiday Centre (Former) Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Apr 2011St Thomas's Road (land at) Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4JE
Received 21 Dec 2015North West Tower North Quay GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1PU
Received 20 Jan 202119 Hillview Drive Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4BT
Received 4 Dec 20019 Ambrose Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5DA
Received 7 Aug 2026Marina Centre Marine Parade Great Yarmouth NR30 2ER
Received 30 May 2008Mill Lane (Land off) Fleggburgh GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 14 Nov 2014Lowestoft Road Hopton on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 9AH
Received 7 Mar 2012Great Yarmouth Charter Academy Salisbury Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4LS
Received 30 Apr 2020Redcliff House Private Road Ormesby NR29 3LH
Received 3 Jun 20246-8 George Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1HR
Received 17 Apr 2015Hi-Lo Church Walk Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Nov 1999Edward Worlledge Community Junior School Suffolk Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0ER
Received 20 May 20143 Bosgate Rise Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4TQ
Received 1 Apr 200371/73 Beach Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Dec 199628 Teulon Close Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BF
Received 4 Nov 201633 Camperdown Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 3JB
Received 9 Jul 2009Flat 2 32 Camperdown GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3JB
Received 9 Mar 202216 Poplar Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7PW
Received 29 Sept 2009Magdalen Way Methodist Church Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7DB NR31 7DB
Received 31 Aug 200531 Anglian Way Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Mar 2003Main Road Billockby Great Yarmouth (Flegg Parish) (Land at OS 5018)
Received 8 Mar 2002Records 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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