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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.
17,256 approved · 2,338 refused · 1,103 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Jul 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tretts Lane/Rollesby Road (Land on corner) Fleggburgh GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3AT
Received 9 Mar 202033 Keyes Avenue GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4AF
Received 25 Apr 2016The Longbar 67 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2EJ NR30 2EJ
Received 27 Jan 2006Beccles Road/Jews Lane (Land off) Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Nov 2010Meadowcroft House Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 7 Jul 201576 Riverside Mill Reach Repps Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Apr 20045 Dorothy Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8NP
Received 21 Dec 20041 St Johns Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7JZ
Received 15 Sept 20141 St Davids Close Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Mar 200120 Holly Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8NL NR31 8NL
Received 25 Jul 2007Treasure World Ltd Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Jun 19991 Trinity Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7DD
Received 21 Jan 1999Grange Farm Cherry Lane Browston Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Apr 200037 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Jan 200012 King Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2BA
Received 14 Sept 2016Caister Holiday Park Ormesby Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5NQ
Received 2 Jun 2008Tech Safe Systems Ltd Shuttleworth Close Gapton Hall Industrial Estate (Parish of Bradwell) Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Mar 2009Land north of Scratby Road Scratby
Received 15 Mar 2024Lynn Grove V A High School Lynn Grove Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8AP
Received 26 Jul 200537 Prince of Wales Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5UA NR30 5UA
Received 4 Jul 2007100 Nelson Road Central Great Yarmouth NR30 3BB
Received 3 May 20258 Avenue Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6NZ
Received 19 May 2014143 - 146 High Street QD Stores Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Nov 201260 Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BE
Received 19 Aug 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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