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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.
16,997 approved · 2,313 refused · 1,096 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Nov 1998 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23/77 Cherry Road (odds) Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Jun 200312 Fredrick Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8BN
Received 23 Aug 2010White Horse Filling Station Beccles Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8BL
Received 22 Mar 2022139 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6RA
Received 15 Jul 202522 Four Acre Estate Bramcote Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Jul 200310 Plover Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8JS
Received 8 Mar 201765 Wellesley Road Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Aug 2004Avenue Works Avenue Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Aug 2011158 Burgh Road (land r/o) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8AX
Received 27 Apr 201811 Fell Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Oct 200213 Waunci Crescent Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Dec 20038 Bramble Gardens Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9PE
Received 14 Aug 2009Former Bridge Hotel Potter Heigham (Repps Parish)
Received 17 Jun 199912 Busseys Loke Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Oct 2001130 Green Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Feb 19991 Kent Mews Kent Square Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2DA
Received 24 Sept 20241 Oxnead Drive Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5PZ
Received 4 Nov 2013East Coast Drums Low Road Winterton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4BJ
Received 3 Mar 2015Shangri La Harfreys Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0QE
Received 24 Nov 2009Hall Farm Lords Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9EP
Received 17 Sept 20015 Collis Lane (site adj) East Somerton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4DS
Received 11 Mar 2015Queens Head Public House High Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QQ
Received 17 Jan 20115 Autumn Close Fleggburgh NR29 3FQ
Received 16 Feb 2025Land at Northgate Hospital (Alderman Mcgee Gardens) Great Yarmouth NR30 4NY
Received 20 Jun 2022Records 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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