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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.
15,016 approved · 2,085 refused · 992 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jun 2001 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7A Cliff Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JY
Received 28 Oct 20085 Morton Crescent Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8NT
Received 5 Aug 200361 Winifred Way Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5PE
Received 22 Jan 200412 Byron Way Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5RW
Received 11 Sept 201429 Claydon Grove Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8AU
Received 18 Aug 2011The Expro Group Morton Peto Road (Parish of Bradwell) Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Jan 201270A Yarmouth Road Caister on Sea GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5BT
Received 22 Oct 2015133 Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NW
Received 11 Apr 2005Lily Bate Barn Scratby Road Scratby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3PQ
Received 23 Jan 2019Repps Garage Services High Road Repps with Bastwick GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5JH
Received 25 Jan 201846 Station Road Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BH
Received 17 Jun 201510 Grove Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PW
Received 4 May 2004Unit B Harfreys Road Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0QE
Received 11 Jan 2010Berry Cottage Black Street Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PN
Received 9 Jan 20232 Roslyn Road (land adjacent) Gorleston NR31 7AF
Received 13 Nov 202525 - 41 Camperdown Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 3JB
Received 24 Feb 2010Land at Nova Scotia Farm west of Jack Chase Way Caister
Received 17 Jun 2024Hall Farm Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Feb 20042 Tudor Walk Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Apr 200222 Victoria Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6EF
Received 19 Aug 2014Eden House The Street Runham Mautby GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 11 Dec 2014East Norfolk Sixth Form College Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BQ
Received 22 May 202699 Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 22 Dec 200816 Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7DB
Received 21 Oct 2009Records 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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