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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.
14,352 approved · 2,006 refused · 958 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Apr 2002 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Suffolk Road (Land off) Harran Limited Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 14 Mar 2014Former Southtown Gasworks Suffolk Road Gorleston-On-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0LQ
Received 25 Feb 2021Eurocentre North River Road Runham Vauxhall Great Yarmouth NR30 1TE
Received 8 Apr 2022Northgate Hospital Northgate Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1BU
Received 9 Jul 2012Acre Meadow Belton New Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Dec 200330 Nightingale Close Scratby Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 8 Jan 2007Perenco UK Ltd Thamesfield Way Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0DW NR31 0DW
Received 11 Jan 2008Norwich and Peterborough Building Society 27 Market Place Great Yarmouth, NR30 1LY
Received 31 Jul 2007Morton Peto Road Gapton Hall Ind.Estate (Part of Parish of Bradwell) Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Feb 20146 Pier Walk Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 6DA NR31 6DA
Received 21 Sept 20051 Misburgh Way (New House at) Hopton Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 22 May 200663 Webster Way Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5XA
Received 8 Mar 200550 Englands Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6BE
Received 1 Apr 2004North Denes Primary School Jellicoe Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 4HF
Received 11 Jan 202123/24 Market Place Woolworths Great Yarmouth NR30 1LZ
Received 4 Mar 2003Land at Beechcroft 74 Station Rd Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 19 Jan 200718 Lower Esplanade Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 19 Jul 200717 Halt Road (adjacent) Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Aug 2003Green Pastures Fakes Road Newport, Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4 NR29 4JL
Received 26 May 200664 Hamilton Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4LZ
Received 2 Oct 200761 Wellesley Road Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Aug 2003Old Barn Hemsby Road Martham
Received 11 Aug 201433 Peterhouse Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7PZ
Received 22 Oct 20231 Beach Road Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4HJ
Received 9 Jun 2021Records 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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