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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.
14,569 approved · 2,034 refused · 966 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Fenner Road Great Yarmouth (Kettle Base Production Building)
Received 1 Jul 2003Pear Tree Corner Low Road Repps with Bastwick Great Yarmouth NR29 5AH
Received 15 Dec 2008Black Street Martham Great Yarmouth (formerly Grove Farm)
Received 31 Mar 20047 Sycamore Avenue Martham NR29 4QW
Received 13 Oct 202524 Sycamore Avenue Martham Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 16 Dec 20053 Robin Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8JL
Received 25 May 2015Caldecott Hall Estate Beccles Road Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9EY
Received 2 Feb 2023Former Pure Fluids building Riverside Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PT
Received 6 Feb 20132 Dene Avenue Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 29 Feb 2012Great Yarmouth College Lichfield Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0ED
Received 25 Oct 2024Manor Farm House School Road Runham Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 23 May 2006105 Regent Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 9QD
Received 20 Feb 2015Beauchamp Grange Ormesby Road Ormesby St Margaret NR30 5QB
Received 16 Apr 20241 Blackbird Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Oct 20042 Meadow View, Low Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 5EY NR29 5EY
Received 21 Mar 2007Gleneagles (Land adj) Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9PY
Received 17 Jun 20145 Collis Lane East Somerton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4DS
Received 26 Aug 2014High Street/School Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6RG
Received 20 Nov 200859 Queens Crescent Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 7NJ
Received 13 Aug 20073 The Bungalow North Market Road Winterton-on-sea NR29 4BL
Received 3 Mar 202516 Crab Lane (rear of) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8DJ
Received 16 Sept 2015Fritton Lake Countryworld Church Lane Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9HA
Received 7 Feb 2005Offshore Design Engineering Ltd Marine Base South Denes Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3QF NR30 3QF
Received 16 Jan 20062 Coronation Avenue Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5EP
Received 11 Apr 2012Records 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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