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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.
19,044 approved · 2,623 refused · 1,176 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 1995 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Beach Coach Station Car Park Nelson Road North Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Aug 200636 Orwell Crescent Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 15 May 20025 Westfield Close Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3DQ
Received 28 Sept 20111 Seymour Avenue GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4AJ
Received 12 Oct 20215 Deneside Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2HL
Received 5 Feb 20134 Nelson Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5DY
Received 17 Oct 2000Foster Close (Land to rear of 70 Station Road) Ormesby St. Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3NH
Received 8 Mar 2023Thrigby Poultry Farm Thrigby Road Thrigby Norfolk NR29 3DZ
Received 3 Apr 2011109 Blackbird Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Sept 2003142 King Street Great Yarmouth NR30 2PQ
Received 21 Nov 202242 Northgate Street Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Feb 1999Central Surgery Sussex Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6QB
Received 4 Jun 2010Tao House 5, The Village Main Road A1064 Fleggburgh NR29 3DL
Received 19 Oct 202537 Martham Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Mar 2001La Marina Yarmouth Road Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4NJ
Received 20 Dec 2019The Bungalow Low Road Winterton Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Jan 20024 Caledonian Way Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9PQ
Received 14 Feb 2005Simpsons Garage Ltd Suffolk Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 6 Mar 20079 Mill Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Jun 1999Water Management Alliance Martham Depot Cess Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4RF
Received 10 May 201842 Common Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NA
Received 31 Jul 2008Halesworth Transit Ltd Yarmouth Business Park Suffolk Road Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Nov 1996Centre 81 Yare House Morton Peto Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0LT
Received 4 Apr 2022Sonning (Land to R/O) High Road Burgh Castle GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9QL
Received 1 Sept 2020Records 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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