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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.
20,208 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Savoy Catering Supplies The Conge Great Yarmouth NR30 1JN
Received 11 Feb 2000Londe House (formerly Penryn) Staithe Road Repps Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Feb 1995Scratby Road (Lily Bate Barn) Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 15 Nov 2016Inverleith St Johns Road Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Jun 1999Land off Guinevere Road Gorleston-on-Sea Great Yarmouth NR31 7RA
Received 17 Feb 2025Eversley House 95-96 North Denes Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4LW NR30 4LW
Received 4 Jul 2006Land between Alpha Road and Common Road Gorleston
Received 29 May 20245 Byron Way Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5RW
Received 11 Oct 2017Farewell Hales Stepshort Belton Belton With Browston NR31 9JS
Received 9 Jul 2023224 Northgate Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1BG
Received 15 Oct 199645 Holly Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8NL
Received 23 Apr 20035 Violet Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Oct 200335 Alderson Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1QJ
Received 2 Nov 2011Tesco Stores Ltd Pasteur Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0DW
Received 19 Mar 20091A Manby Road Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Mar 1995Plot 5 off Thrigby Road Filby Great Yarmouth (formerly York Villa)
Received 10 Aug 199820 School Road Runham Vauxhall GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1LB
Received 23 Jun 2017275 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JW
Received 13 Feb 2013High Woods (Land north of 252 High Street) Gorleston On Sea Great Yarmouth NR31 0PB
Received 27 Mar 2025The Hideaway Bure Close Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9LJ
Received 24 Sept 201829 Falkland Way Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8RW
Received 21 Apr 2022Charity Farm Thrigby Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Jan 2002Kings Loke Hemsby Great Yarmouth (field OS No 8472 off)
Received 21 May 200238 Grenville Place Great Yarmouth NR30 4BL
Received 29 Oct 2003Records 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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