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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.
18,922 approved · 2,596 refused · 1,176 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
84 North Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 1JF
Received 26 Jan 2004Dowe Hill House Scratby Road Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3PJ
Received 6 Jul 2004Ambleside Main Road Rollesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5EH
Received 29 Jan 202013 Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3AJ
Received 22 May 2014The Granary Clarkes Farm Staithe Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PT
Received 5 Dec 2012Masco House Shuttleworth Close Gapton Hall Ind.Est (Parish of Bradwell) Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Oct 200825 Downing Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Jun 199610 Cob Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 9UQ
Received 11 Jun 202126 Long Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Aug 200557 Homefield Avenue Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 8NW
Received 22 Feb 2021Land off Foster Close Ormesby St Margaret
Received 22 Nov 202215 Beechwood Road Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4LP
Received 10 May 201818 South Garden Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6TL NR31 6TL
Received 1 Aug 2016177 El Alamein Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8TX
Received 9 Feb 2011Former Estcourt Hospital Ashley Cooper Place Northgate Great Yarmouth NR30 4DN
Received 5 Dec 2024Boultons 55,56,57 North Quay Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 3 Jul 20063A Balmoral Avenue GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4DZ
Received 20 Jan 2022208 High Street Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6RR
Received 13 Mar 20184 Archers Road Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Mar 2024Land adj Foster Close Ormesby St Margaret
Received 24 Mar 202566 Repps Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Mar 19983 St Andrew Close Hopton-on-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 9ST
Received 6 Jan 202135 California Avenue Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3NS NR29 3NS
Received 4 Mar 2008Excalibur Road (Land off) Beacon Park Gorleston Great Yarmouth, NR31 7RU
Received 5 Nov 2007Records 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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