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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.
18,085 approved · 2,458 refused · 1,136 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
8 Lower Cliff Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 13 May 1999Wheatcroft Farm (Land at) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH (Land at South Bradwell)
Received 18 Dec 2017Abbeville Lodge Acle New Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1SE
Received 21 Dec 202234A Marine Parade GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2EN
Received 22 Apr 2021Barn 3 Hall Farm Beccles Road Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9JQ
Received 8 Oct 202023 Hunter Drive Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Apr 20042 Nelson Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6AY
Received 7 Mar 201230 Bulmer Lane Winterton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4AF
Received 2 Apr 201515 Hall Quay Barclays Bank plc Great Yarmouth NR30 1HL
Received 12 Feb 200479 Westerley Way Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Sept 199827 Hall Plain Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 16 Mar 20092 Clover Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8RH
Received 5 Apr 2013Morrisons Blackwall Reach Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6SA
Received 18 Mar 2020Beccles Road (land off) Clay Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Mar 2002Land to the North of Chaplin Road Bradwell NR31 9XW
Received 1 Oct 202658 Beach Road (Building at rear of) Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5EX
Received 8 Sept 2014Hemsby Parish Council Office Kingsway Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4JT
Received 16 Nov 202214 Sandringham Avenue Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4DY
Received 5 Apr 201330A Western Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7QE NR31 7QE
Received 19 Aug 2016Land west of St Nicholas Drive St Nicholas Drive Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5RE
Received 20 Dec 2022257 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JJ
Received 30 Jul 2012Unit C3 Great Yarmouth Shopping Park GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0NL
Received 29 Mar 2016Kingfisher Holiday Park Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Dec 199964 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Oct 2001Records 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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