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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.
20,227 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
103 Middleton Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7PU
Received 11 Aug 19986 Gordon Terrace (rear of) Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Aug 20025 Dashwood Close Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Aug 2002Graylands (Plot of Land) Harfreys Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0QE
Received 12 Sept 201342 Wadham Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7NS NR31 7NS
Received 23 Mar 201610 Hyrn Close Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Aug 20041 Blackwall Reach Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 6SA
Received 6 Mar 2023Old World Cottage Fleggburgh Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5AJ
Received 2 Feb 20091B Manby Road Great Yarmouth NR30 2XA
Received 26 Jul 2005Land east of 6 Eden Place Great Yarmouth NR30 1DS
Received 25 Oct 202556 Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth (builders yard adjacent)
Received 5 Oct 200417 Amhurst Gardens Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 29 May 19974 Church Walk (Part of Garden) Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8QQ
Received 23 Nov 2007Aldi Store Fullers Hill Great Yarmouth
Received 23 May 1997Caister Waste Transfer Station Pump Lane West Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5BE
Received 4 Dec 20132 Ormesby Lane Filby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3HX NR29 3HX
Received 15 Nov 200629 Poplar Drive Filby NR29 3HU
Received 16 Feb 202667 High Street (Rear of, facing Blackwall Reach) Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Mar 2009(Site off) Hall Road Martham Great Yarmouth (Pumping Station)
Received 11 Dec 200395 Salisbury Road (rear of) Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Dec 2000Elm Grove House New Road Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9JW
Received 10 Mar 2022The Manor House Browston Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 9DP
Received 6 Aug 2007St. Johns Farm St. John's Road Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NS
Received 1 May 2003184 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Dec 1997Records 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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