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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.
20,219 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Curacao 18B Easterley Way Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4LB
Received 18 Jun 2012Coral 112 Regent Road Great Yarmouth NR30 2AE
Received 12 Mar 200819 West Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Oct 1995Roby Lodge Rollesby Road Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Mar 2004Aeropak (Chemical Product) Viking Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0NU
Received 4 Apr 202220 Market Place GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1LY
Received 14 Aug 20194/5 Marine Parade Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6DP
Received 26 Jan 19991 Hazel Drive Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QL
Received 13 Jun 2016Empala (land at rear) Sandy Lane Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9LT
Received 6 Mar 2017Trevalma 4 Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NF
Received 9 Mar 2010Magistrates Court North Quay GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1PW
Received 10 Feb 202130 Yarmouth Road Wentworth House Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5AA
Received 6 Apr 2011Mill Lane (plot at) Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth (adj 2 Rollesby Road)
Received 25 Mar 199812 Tolhouse Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2SQ
Received 12 Jul 2021Herringfleet House Herringfleet Road St Olaves GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9HJ
Received 28 Feb 201962 Victoria Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6EF
Received 21 Sept 199918 Trelawny Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Feb 1996James Paget University Hospital Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6LA
Received 20 Aug 2009Waveney Mills Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0JB
Received 21 Aug 2025East Anglian Way (adjacent) Church Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Apr 199535 Queens Crescent Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7NN
Received 2 Jun 2010Mulberry Tree House (west of) Main Road Filby Great Yarmouth NR29 3HS
Received 7 Nov 20012 Rollesby Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Sept 1999Howard Street North/Broad Row Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Aug 1994Records 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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