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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.
18,100 approved · 2,462 refused · 1,138 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jun 1997 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8b Princes Road Great Yarmouth NR30 2DB
Received 17 Jan 20018 South Garden Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6TL NR31 6TL
Received 11 May 2011Mid Continent (Great Yarmouth) Limited Gapton Hall Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 0HX
Received 1 Feb 2023Beach Coach Station Nelson Road North Great Yarmouth NR30 1EN
Received 18 Jul 202239 Long Beach Estate Winterton Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Apr 19994 Lowestoft Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6LY
Received 2 Jan 201828 Sparrow Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 31 Jan 2007Hall Farm Stokesby Great Yarmouth NR29 3EP
Received 17 Aug 1999Premier Recycling Great Yarmouth Business Park Thamesfield Way Great Yarmouth NR31 0ET
Received 28 Apr 2006Suffolk Road Claydon Pavilion Great Yarmouth NR31 0QB
Received 24 Jul 201341 Warren Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JT NR31 6JT
Received 22 Mar 200719 Russell Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7QZ
Received 24 Aug 200422 Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 27 Oct 2006The Tramway Hotel 1 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6SG
Received 5 Oct 1998Aldi Foodstore Fullers Hill Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Feb 199933 Ormesby Road (Land to rear of) Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Jul 200853 Mill Lane Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8HH
Received 27 Mar 2017The House Hopton Service Station Lowestoft Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Jun 200511 Broad Row (Rear of) GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1HT
Received 7 Apr 2017Magellan House James Watt Close GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0NX
Received 27 Nov 2014Havenbridge House North Quay GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1HZ
Received 1 Jun 2015Pops Meadow Pavilion Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6BY
Received 6 Jun 2022Fleggburgh Village Hall Main Road Fleggburgh NR29 3AG
Received 26 Feb 202664 St Annes Crescent Gorleston Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 6 Mar 2006Records 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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