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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.
18,118 approved · 2,465 refused · 1,138 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Common Farm Common Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NB
Received 21 Jul 2026Regent Road/Alexandra Road Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Jul 199710 & 11 Row 48 North Quay GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1HU
Received 5 Feb 2019Willowmead Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3QG
Received 21 Jul 202017 Barnard Avenue Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4DX
Received 29 Jul 201039-40 Barkis Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 3ED NR30 3ED
Received 16 Apr 20074 Baillie Close Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7RT
Received 30 Mar 2024Tanglewood Lords Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 14 May 20095 Station Gardens (site adj) Repps Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4QR
Received 13 Aug 2008Squirrel Dreys Herringfleet Road St Olaves Fritton NR31 9HJ
Received 25 Mar 20247 Market Gates Shopping Centre GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2BG
Received 24 Aug 20151 Paddock Farm Drive (plot ad) Filby Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Jul 199711 Micawber Avenue Great Yarmouth NR30 3EE
Received 8 Aug 2025Around a Pound Franson Park Warren Road Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9BN
Received 28 Sept 2009South Denes Road Great Yarmouth (C Site)
Received 27 Oct 199833 Wright Close Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5XQ
Received 26 Nov 201296 Victoria Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6EA
Received 9 Jul 20202 Tudor Walk Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Jan 2002Eastern Lights Beach Road Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4AS
Received 15 Sept 200310 Bluebell Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Jun 2005School Close Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5EL
Received 22 Nov 2012Grosvenor Casino Shadingfield Lodge Marine Parade GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 3JG
Received 2 May 201628 Beach Road Lost World Adventure Golf Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4HS
Received 15 Dec 2015Bubbles Amusements 1 Warren Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Aug 2011Records 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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