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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.
18,651 approved · 2,550 refused · 1,158 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Northgate Primary School Northgate Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1BP
Received 4 Dec 202444 Collingwood Road Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Aug 1997Te-Aroha Albert Square Great Yarmouth NR30 3JH
Received 14 Feb 2014245 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6RT
Received 14 Jan 2024Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court Rampart Road Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Mar 2003Thurnefield Staithe Road Repps Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Nov 2001Gapton Hall Retail Park Gapton Hall Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0NL
Received 27 Apr 201821 Bately Avenue Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6HJ NR31 6HJ
Received 8 Mar 201748 Warren Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth (Hopton Parish) NR31 6JT
Received 24 Jun 20034 Yallop Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 22 Feb 200622 Cadiz Way Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9RY
Received 2 Sept 201199 Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3PG
Received 15 Jun 2004Hopton Holiday Village Warren Road Hopton-on-sea NR31 9BW
Received 11 Dec 2023Hurrells Motor Services Estcourt Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 4JQ
Received 13 Aug 2020Humberstone Farm Mill Road Cobholm Great Yarmouth NR31 0AZ
Received 30 Jun 2000Willow Farm 20 Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3QE
Received 15 Apr 2021Haven Shore Base South Denes Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3QD
Received 27 Feb 199844 Old Church Road Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9BZ
Received 9 Nov 2004Plots 2/5 Thrigby Road Runham Mautby Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Sept 199770 Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Sept 200129 Eastern Avenue Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5HX
Received 15 May 201533 Appleton Drive Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3RL
Received 6 Jun 2000181 Burgh Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9ER
Received 26 Jul 20063 Pine Lodge Fairways Lake Village Caldecott Hall Fritton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9EY
Received 22 Aug 2016Records 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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