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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.
16,821 approved · 2,288 refused · 1,091 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Feb 1999 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 Wellesley Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2AR
Received 12 Oct 201146/47 North Quay Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1JE
Received 27 Mar 200967 Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 21 Jun 20021/3 North Road (adjoining) Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Mar 1999Plot One The Masquers off Bridge Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Jun 199975 Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8DH
Received 25 Mar 20041 Hebrides Way Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5TX
Received 13 May 2010East Norfolk Sixth Form College Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Aug 2008The Olde Blackcurrant Farm (Former Manor Farm) Back Lane Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Jun 200640 Bunnewell Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8RQ
Received 1 Nov 200418 Symonds Avenue Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Aug 2001Martham Playing Field Rollesby Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Jun 20056 Beach Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6BH
Received 25 Aug 2004Pendenbury 7 Rectory Close Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5HW
Received 7 May 200279 Martham Road Lowlands Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NG
Received 19 Oct 2004158 King Street Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Aug 200516 Kennel Loke Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 6JU
Received 26 Apr 19991 Beatty Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4BT
Received 10 Dec 200319A Easterley Way Hemsby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 4LB
Received 18 Dec 2007Aranma 48 Black Street Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PN
Received 18 Sept 20238 Jordan Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Aug 200425 Marine Parade Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6DY
Received 6 Feb 2023Co-op The Green Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PA
Received 7 Apr 20045 & 6 South Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 2QJ
Received 29 Jul 2025Records 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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