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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.
16,011 approved · 2,189 refused · 1,044 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
40 Prince of Wales Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Apr 2003Land off Staithe Road Martham
Received 14 May 202513 Nightingale Close (Plot rear of) Scratby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3NR
Received 24 Apr 2015The Grange High Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QL
Received 6 Jan 20053 Pinecot Avenue Bradwell NR31 8QB
Received 5 Sept 202438/38A Almond Road Gorleston on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 8AA
Received 28 Sept 200710 Green Lane (adjacent) Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Mar 2004210 Lowestoft Road Copse Edge Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JQ
Received 11 Apr 2001Orchard House Peartree Avenue Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4RJ
Received 15 Feb 200116 The Close Hemsby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 4ER NR29 4ER
Received 11 Oct 2005Arromanches Low Road Repps GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5AH
Received 20 Feb 202010 Playingfield Lane (Land at) Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4SP
Received 18 Mar 2013Common Road Plots 43 & 44 Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 18 Aug 201561/75 & 77/87 Caister Road Great Yarmouth
Received 15 May 2002283 Beccles Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8DA
Received 25 Oct 2010Desira Motor Company North Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 1RD
Received 4 Oct 2025S/o 6 & 7 Beatty Close, O/s 33 Sturdee Avenue and O/s 28 Beatty Close Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Aug 202425 Perebrown Avenue Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Feb 2004East Norfolk Sixth Form College Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BQ
Received 29 Jun 2012Shrublands Health Centre Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Jul 2011Pointers East (Beachamp Grange) Ormesby Road Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5QB
Received 24 Jul 2017Caister Community Centre Beach Road, Caister-on-Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR30 5ER
Received 4 Jun 2007South Market Road Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Jan 2002The Ark Decoy Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 19 May 2006Records 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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