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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.
16,212 approved · 2,208 refused · 1,052 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Nov 1999 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cliffholme Bush Road Winterton-on-sea Great Yarmouth NR29 4BY
Received 1 Mar 202346 Station Road Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BH
Received 14 Apr 201540 Heather Avenue Scratby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3NN
Received 17 Feb 201529-30 Market Place Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1LY
Received 1 Sept 200912 Trafalgar Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2LD
Received 16 Jun 2020The Acorns Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9PU
Received 25 Mar 20084 Camperdown Flats 1 2 & 4 GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3JB
Received 7 May 201955 Sea View Rise Hopton on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 9SE NR31 9SE
Received 16 Jan 200716 High Street Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5EP
Received 27 Apr 2009Summerfields Holiday Village Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3NW
Received 14 Apr 200814 Buttermere Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Apr 2004Vogue 32 Regent Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2AF NR30 2AF
Received 19 Oct 20074 Admirals Quay Great Yarmouth NR31 0JT
Received 8 Jul 20221 Repps Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4TJ
Received 3 Aug 200458 Braddock Road Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5LP NR30 5LP
Received 7 Jul 2006Nursery View Burghwood Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 19 Sept 2006187 Northgate Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1DA NR30 1DA
Received 29 Apr 2010Northcliffe House Old Chapel Road Winterton-on-Sea Great Yarmouth NR29 4BQ
Received 28 Aug 201283 Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7AA
Received 7 Dec 201226A - 27 King Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2NZ
Received 15 Sept 2014The Firs 29 Private Road Ormesby St Margaret W Scratby NR29 3LH
Received 11 Jun 2026143 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8HS
Received 6 Feb 2024Petrol Filling Station Co-op Store Blackbird Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9ER
Received 4 Jun 2014Applied Accoustic Engineering Ltd Marine House Marine Park Gapton Hall Road Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0NB
Received 11 Oct 2021Records 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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