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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.
18,621 approved · 2,541 refused · 1,158 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 1996 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Hampton Close Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5AY
Received 6 Jun 2011Market Gates Shopping Centre Market Gates Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2BG
Received 10 Feb 201161 Holly Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8NL
Received 3 Jul 2013South Beach Parade Land adjacent to Power Station Great Yarmouth NR30 3QF
Received 20 Feb 2012Land South of Meadowland Drive Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Jun 20268 Winmer Avenue Winterton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4BA
Received 23 Dec 2021Glen-Haven St Johns Road Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9JT
Received 21 Apr 2016116 Lowestoft Road Dental Surgery Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Mar 200278 Westerley Way Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5AP
Received 5 Dec 2016Town Hall Great Yarmouth NR30 2QH
Received 24 Mar 1998Trafalgar House Hall Plain Great Yarmouth NR30 2QG
Received 1 Mar 20138 Geneva Gardens Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 16 May 2001The Old Vicarage Church Plain Great Yarmouth NR30 1NE
Received 13 Oct 2010Land (to rear) 83-84 Northgate Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR30 1BN
Received 21 Jun 2007Oaklands Stables Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9PU NR31 9PU
Received 13 Jun 200623-24 Broad Row GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1HT
Received 7 Mar 2019Southtown Road (Land adj Beccles Road) ASCO Gas House Facility & Bollards Quay GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0JZ
Received 18 Oct 2021The Manor House Browston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 9DP
Received 23 Nov 20072/5 Marine Passage Marine Parade Great Yarmouth NR30 3AN
Received 26 Jul 19996 Tan Lane Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5DN
Received 13 Sept 201196/98 St Peters Road Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Oct 199638 Whimbrel Drive Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 9UN NR31 9UN
Received 30 Oct 2006Area 401-2 of the North Sea Anglian marine aggregate regio 30km offshore east of Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Mar 202687 Sturdee Avenue Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4HJ NR30 4HJ
Received 25 May 2007Records 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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