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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.
15,815 approved · 2,169 refused · 1,034 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 May 2000 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sycamore Avenue (Land off) Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Oct 2013Land West of Woodfarm Lane (Bluebell Meadow) Beccles Road Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 21 Apr 20227 Collis Lane East Somerton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4DT
Received 19 Nov 201426 Garnham Road (Land adjacent) Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PB
Received 27 Nov 20071 Coronation Cottages Cess Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4RF
Received 14 Dec 200415 to 26 & 102 to 111 Wellesley Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 16 Feb 2007Byway, Yarmouth Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 4NJ
Received 25 Jun 2007Land north of Hemsby Road Hemsby Road Martham NR29 4QG
Received 17 Apr 202437 Ormesby Road Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4LA
Received 7 Dec 2017Adjacent Sunny View The Craft Winterton-on-Sea Great Yarmouth NR29 4AX
Received 29 Aug 201210 Laburnum Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8JB
Received 24 Feb 202330 Barnard Close Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Apr 200543 Tillett Close Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3PW
Received 31 Jul 2002Land on the south promenade opposite Pier Hotel South Pier Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PL
Received 14 Aug 20233 Spruce Avenue Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3RY
Received 4 Apr 2011Church Farm Freehouse Church Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Sept 2002Broiler Farm Mill Lane Fleggburgh GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3AW
Received 4 Jan 20224 Gurney Close Hopton-on-sea NR31 9TZ
Received 3 Sept 2022Church Cottage Black Street Winterton-on-sea Norfolk NR29 4AP
Received 15 Jun 20215 King Georges Avenue Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5EN
Received 30 Aug 200535 Market Place Halifax Plc Great Yarmouth NR30 1LX
Received 3 May 201330 West Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Mar 2005Bloodhills Farm Bloodhills East Somerton Great Yarmouth NR29 4DU
Received 13 Jan 2014145 Brasenose Avenue Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7EE NR31 7EE
Received 18 Nov 2015Records 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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