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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.
18,277 approved · 2,488 refused · 1,149 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Kitchener Road Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Jul 2004Grange Hotel Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3QG
Received 17 Aug 200430 Four Acres Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4JB
Received 26 Sept 2002The Annexe 17 Marine Parade Gorleston NR31 6DX
Received 9 Oct 202417 Kent Square GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2EX
Received 25 Oct 201930 Fellowes Drive Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 13 Mar 200925 Station Road South Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9JG NR31 9JG
Received 10 May 201614 Neptune Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 6GD
Received 17 Jan 201410 Queens Place Cobholm Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Jul 1999Unit 2 (Adj Matalan) Southtown Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0JB
Received 5 Feb 201312 Walters Close (opposite) Hopton on Sea Great Yarmouth NR31 9DE
Received 16 Aug 20101 Heather Road Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Mar 2005High Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0PB
Received 22 Feb 201920a Marine Parade Viraj Cottage Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6DX
Received 28 Aug 1997St Mary's RC Church (O/S) Regent Road Roman Place Great Yarmouth NR30 2AJ
Received 29 May 201210 Chapman Avenue Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5HS NR30 5HS
Received 15 Nov 2006The Arches Free House Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8DH
Received 7 May 2013Folkes Haulage Harfreys Road Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Sept 2001Nashville 12 Rollesby Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4RU
Received 11 Mar 202135 Queens Road Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Apr 2001117 Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Mar 200025 Whinchat Way (Adjoining) Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Dec 200864 Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth
Received 21 May 199721 Market Place Great Yarmouth NR30 1LY
Received 1 May 2024Records 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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