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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.
19,243 approved · 2,674 refused · 1,187 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Sept 1995 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 Marine Crescent Salisbury Residential Home Great Yarmouth NR30 4ET
Received 8 Jun 200424 Wapping Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Sept 1996Magellan House James Watt Close Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 0NX
Received 2 Jul 1999Caister First School Kingston Avenue Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5ET
Received 27 Jun 2008Gorleston Telephone Exchange Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BE
Received 28 Sept 202213 Meadow Rise Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Jun 1998Church Farm House Main Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth NR29 3LN
Received 31 Jan 201124 Broad Row Alternatives Great Yarmouth NR30 1HT
Received 17 Jun 199737-39 Market Row Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1PB
Received 15 Nov 2011Manor House Farm Warren Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Jan 19988 Ashwood Close Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5RF
Received 16 Oct 2014Garage at 18 Estcourt Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4JQ
Received 5 Jun 2024Nursery Barn Rollesby Road Fleggburgh NR29 3AR
Received 19 Feb 2024Hall Farm Barn 1 Beccles Road Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9JQ
Received 10 Dec 201896 High Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0PE
Received 9 Nov 2022Ferry Boatyard Ferrygate Lane Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Mar 2003Herman Middle School Oriel Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7JL NR31 7JL
Received 9 Feb 200621-24 Apollo Walk GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1QH
Received 15 May 2019Plot 4 Belle of the East Way Station Road, Belton Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 3 Feb 200625 Maple Gardens Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8ND
Received 25 Jul 200879 Common Road Kingslivere Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 1NA
Received 13 Apr 2016Telecommunications Facility Ormesby Road Caister on sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5SB
Received 15 Jan 20258 St Nicholas Court Yew Tree Close Bradwell Great Yamouth
Received 26 Sept 20021 Barrack Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3DR
Received 15 Apr 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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