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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.
19,855 approved · 2,821 refused · 1,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Oct 1994 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gapton Hall Road (Land off) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0RD
Received 11 Oct 201926 Duncan Road Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Dec 1994Burghwell Lodge Market Road Burgh Castle NR31 9EN
Received 18 Aug 2023Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth (rear of 127/131 Green Lane) NR31 8QD
Received 9 Nov 2000Oasis Amusements Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Dec 1996Wildwood New Road Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9HR
Received 9 Mar 1998Sowells Farm Back Lane Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Sept 199573 Southtown Road Choice Furnishings GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0DY
Received 31 Oct 20161 School Close Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5EJ
Received 28 Jun 1999Gordon Road (rear of 1/3) Southtown Great Yarmouth NR31 0EA
Received 16 Nov 2000184/185 King Street Nationwide Great Yarmouth NR30 1LS
Received 28 Feb 2005Church Farm House (annexe thereto) Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth NR29 3LN
Received 23 Dec 200867 Regent Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2AL
Received 17 Jan 201417 Hawthorn Crescent Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8PX
Received 25 May 201216 Grove Road Repps with Bastwick Great Yarmouth NR29 5JL
Received 7 Oct 201116 North Road Ormesby St Margaret NR29 3SA
Received 11 Dec 2025Unit 2 Riverside Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Mar 200012 Selwyn Drive Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9LR
Received 3 Jun 2011Halls Site Riverside Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Feb 2012257 El Alamein Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 8 May 2002Middleton House The Conge Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1NA
Received 16 Jan 200850 Anglian Way Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Apr 19995 Ormesby Road Caister Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5JY
Received 27 Feb 2008134 King Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2PQ
Received 20 May 2014Records 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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