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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.
17,106 approved · 2,325 refused · 1,102 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
101 Yarmouth Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5BU
Received 21 Aug 2000School Close Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5EL
Received 22 Nov 201213 Deneside Great Yarmouth NR30 2NW
Received 16 Apr 2003Hopton Holiday Village Warren Road Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 8BW
Received 18 Aug 199937 Stafford Road Southtown Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 0ES
Received 24 Oct 2007Mill Farm House Hemsby Road Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4AJ
Received 16 Jun 200029 Second Avenue Caister-on-sea NR30 5NN
Received 10 Apr 2024Just Lookin (Kiosk adjacent Arnold Palmer Putting Course) Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Mar 201145 Camden Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 3AB
Received 11 Apr 201211 Private Drive Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Sept 200349A Northgate Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1BJ
Received 30 Aug 201837 North River Road (rear of) Great Yarmouth (fronting unadopted Yaxleys Road)
Received 6 Aug 200345A King Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2PN
Received 26 Feb 201937 Cliff Hill Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6DQ
Received 18 Jan 2010Opp 18 Elm Avenue Gorleston NR31 7PL
Received 6 Jun 2024137A Southtown Road (land to the rear of) Great Yarmouth NR31 0LA
Received 19 Mar 20249 Russell Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7QZ
Received 15 Nov 200413 Coniston Square Great Yarmouth NR30 1NT
Received 10 Oct 202216 Penguin Road Scratby GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR29 3NU
Received 31 Mar 202237 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Jan 200448-49 Regent Road Regent Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2AL
Received 2 Oct 20186 Diana Way Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5TP
Received 3 Dec 20152 Beatty Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4BW
Received 16 Jun 20102 Hall Cottages (plot adj) Martham Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Aug 2002Records 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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