Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
16,867 approved · 2,291 refused · 1,094 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adjacent Foster Close Ormesby St Margaret
Received 24 Mar 20251 and 5 Church Court Priory Plain GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1NS
Received 28 Oct 202025/26 North Denes Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4LW
Received 27 Mar 2000Shuttleworth Close Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 0NQ
Received 6 Apr 200518 South Quay GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2RG NR30 2RG
Received 12 Apr 201653 Howard Street South GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2PT
Received 21 Dec 20185 Dove Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8QY
Received 6 Mar 20122 Greenhill Avenue Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5NY
Received 17 May 20059 South Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 2QH
Received 16 Jan 200435 Meadowsweet Road Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5BF
Received 7 Nov 201617 Longfellow Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Apr 200328 Willow Avenue Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8JH
Received 8 Jun 201831 Yarmouth Road Caister-On-Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5DL
Received 21 Sept 2011O/S Norfolk Square, Wellesley Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1EU
Received 8 Jun 2012Land off New Road Belton GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 19 Oct 202015 St Furseys Way Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QU
Received 18 Feb 2014172 Burgh Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8AX
Received 13 Aug 2001Gapton Hall Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 24 Aug 200531-33 Church Lane Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8QW
Received 15 Sept 201768/69 North Market Road (Site to rear of) Great Yarmouth NR30 2DX
Received 28 Nov 201218 Edinburgh Avenue Gorleston NR31 7EZ
Received 16 Apr 20248 Caister Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4DB
Received 9 Nov 201013 Station Road Hopton Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 31 Oct 20055 St Georges Drive Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5QN
Received 20 Mar 2019Records 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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