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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.
18,336 approved · 2,497 refused · 1,153 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13/14 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 17 Mar 1999Repps Road (Land to the North of) Martham GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR29 4QZ
Received 15 Jul 2021Caldecott Hall Estate Beccles Road Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9EY
Received 21 Apr 2023St Olaves Service Station Beccles Road St Olaves GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9HD
Received 14 Apr 2023Heath House Main Road Filby Heath Great Yarmouth NR29 3JG
Received 19 Aug 1999Windmill Poultry Farm (former) River Way Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Nov 200421 Cormorant Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9UH
Received 28 Jul 20222 Blyth Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5TG
Received 31 Mar 199852 Sturdee Avenue Great Yarmouth NR30 4HL
Received 3 Feb 2004Double One, 10 Ormesby Glebe Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4JW
Received 1 Jul 2026Manor Farm Oby Great Yarmouth NR29 3BM
Received 7 Oct 19982 Market Gates Great Yarmouth
Received 31 Mar 20046 Walpole Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4NG
Received 17 Apr 2002Unit C Gapton Hall Retail Park MFI Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0NB
Received 24 Mar 1997114 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6NB
Received 5 Apr 200471 Southtown Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0DY
Received 29 Aug 2013Pebble Lodge The Craft Winterton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4AX
Received 19 Feb 20192 Beccles Road (adjacent) Holly Cottage Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9TQ
Received 4 Aug 2017Hall Farm, Pipistrelle Barn Beccles Road Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9JQ
Received 10 Mar 20261a Sandown Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1EY
Received 18 Apr 200275 St Peters Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3AY
Received 2 Oct 2017The Cottage The Street Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Sept 2002Unit 2A Ventureforth Complex South Denes Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 8 Feb 2006Gapton Hall Road/Hewett Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 7 May 1997Records 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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