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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.
16,248 approved · 2,211 refused · 1,055 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Mill House Mill Road Stokesby Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Jun 2005Land at south of South Denes Road and South Beach Parade Great Yarmouth NR30 3QF
Received 3 Nov 2022Former Tesco Supermarket Church Plain Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Feb 2005Fernlea Main Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Aug 2000Yarmouth Road (site off) Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NL
Received 4 Feb 2011Land south of Somerton Road and White Street East of Church Farm Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 13 May 202440A Palgrave Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1QD
Received 7 Jul 2022147 High Street Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6RB
Received 4 Feb 202051 Winifred Way Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 23 May 200617-18 Camperdown Sienna Lodge Great Yarmouth NR30 3JB
Received 2 Mar 2011SSAF East Anglia Old Blacksmiths Workshop Back Lane, Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PE NR29 4PE
Received 3 Jun 2009Unit 5 Pasteur Retail Park Thamesfield Way Great Yarmouth NR31 0DH
Received 16 Jun 202223 Regent Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1Rl
Received 19 May 2011Land to the west of 21 Hemsby Road (adjacent SSAF Window Films Ltd) Martham NR29 4WU
Received 31 Mar 2025Station Road Old Newsagent/Cafe Site Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 15 Jun 201522 Orchard Way Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth NR29 3AY
Received 3 Mar 200510 Beach Road (Land at) The Stables Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4HJ
Received 28 Aug 202015 Minsmere Road Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NX
Received 21 Apr 2023Hall Farm, Hall Group Beach Road Scratby Ormesby St Margaret W Scratby NR29 3AJ
Received 4 Jun 2025127 Burgh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8AZ
Received 19 Aug 20107 The Paddock Hemsby Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 28 Nov 2005The Old Post House Lowestoft Road Hopton-on-sea NR31 9AH
Received 27 Mar 20246 Lion Cottages The Street Thurne Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Dec 1999Lancelot Road Beacon Park Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Feb 2011Records 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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