Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
19,667 approved · 2,787 refused · 1,206 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Mill Road Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4ND
Received 15 Jan 201815 Lacon Road Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5EU
Received 4 Mar 2015Gable End Burtons Farm Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9DT
Received 8 Apr 20021 Gordon Terrace Crown Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2JJ
Received 10 Jan 201725 Sandringham Avenue Great Yarmouth NR30 4DY
Received 29 Jun 200541 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8HH
Received 8 Feb 2011Tesco Pasteur Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0DW
Received 5 Apr 201212 Raven Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8JX NR31 8JX
Received 21 Feb 2006Land at Newport Road Hemsby
Received 24 May 202528 Chestnut Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8PN
Received 6 Jan 201434 Teulon Close Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BF
Received 19 Apr 2017Oaklands Priory Road St Olaves Great Yarmouth NR31 9HQ
Received 8 Jul 200441 Market Gates Shopping Centre GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2AX
Received 5 Jul 201681 Riverside Repps Riverbank Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Jan 2003Tower Curing Works Blackfriars Road Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Jan 2002Plot 1 Penguin Road Scratby Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Dec 1998Newport Road (land off) Hemsby Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 17 Dec 201217 Blake Road Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Aug 199713 Drudge Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Dec 1996Common Road (land at) Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Jun 2008Lime Kiln House Lime Kiln Walk North Quay Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Mar 201151 Havelock Road Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Jan 1997Seventh Day Adventist Church Burnt Lane Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 26 Mar 200713 Royal Avenue Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Feb 1996Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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