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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.
20,226 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Damgate Lane Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Jul 1998Lodge Farm Lawns Lane Rollesby NR29 5HL
Received 9 Feb 2024137 Mill Road P J's Great Yarmouth NR31 0HS
Received 29 Aug 2014Unit 1 Market Gates Shopping Cent Great Yarmouth NR30 2BG
Received 20 Jun 20021/7 North Market Road Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Sept 199975 Parkland Drive Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8DS
Received 5 Jul 2018The Copacabana Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Apr 19947 Cedar Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8JA
Received 4 May 2012Burton Evans 1 King Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2BA
Received 2 Oct 201282 Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth (First Floor)
Received 29 Aug 2002Baker Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Feb 2004Copperfield (land south of) Sidegate Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Feb 200119 Julian Way Hopton-on-sea NR31 9SU
Received 7 Jan 2025Gapton Hall Road Baker Hughes Inteq Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell
Received 27 Oct 1995The Lodge Main Road BILLOCKBY Norfolk NR29 3BG
Received 17 Apr 2023Scratby/California Ramps Base of Cliff at OS grid ref E651526 N315379 and E651874 N314706 respectively
Received 27 Feb 1997Albemarle Rd/Downing Rd (Rear) Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Mar 199914 Hall Quay Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1EH
Received 9 Mar 2012Herringport Furniture, Old Priory Works, Riverside Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PX
Received 13 Mar 20246 Kipling Close Caister-On-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 5RJ
Received 2 Dec 2021Corner of Kings Drive and Beccles Road Bradwell NR31 8TE
Received 1 Feb 2024Hopton Holiday Village Warren Road Hopton-on-sea NR31 9BW
Received 14 Apr 2025New House Tretts Lane Fleggburgh GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 18 Jul 201818 Sussex Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 6PF
Received 17 Jun 2021Records 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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