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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20,227 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10/16 High Street Caister-on-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5EF
Received 9 Jun 200826 John Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6LF
Received 21 Dec 200918 Maud Terrace Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Jun 1996Christchurch Forecourt (to the east of 148-150 King Street) King Street Great Yarmouth NR30 2HL
Received 12 Sept 2024211 Gapton Hall Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 0NL
Received 30 May 2024Logic House Duffy and McGovern Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Jun 199735-36 Market Place Halifax Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Sept 199871-73 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2DQ
Received 18 Mar 20135 Marine Parade (land at the rear of) Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Apr 2026Moughton Engineering Services Units 11-15 Faraday Road Gapton Hall Ind. Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0NH
Received 5 Sept 2008Pink Cottage Lacons Corner Mautby Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Oct 200880 Walpole Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4NS
Received 15 Apr 2016Admiralty Road/Suffling Road Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Feb 199982 Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth (first floor)
Received 29 Jul 2004Site off Thamesfield Way GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 27 Sept 202120 Kennedy Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Oct 1995Vauxhall Holiday Park Acle New Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1TB
Received 2 Sept 2025South Quay Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Jul 199494 Yarmouth Road Caister-on-Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR30 5BT
Received 20 Sept 20078 Autumn Close Fleggburgh NR29 3FQ
Received 31 Jul 2025Gibbet Hill Farm (Field near) Hemsby Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QH
Received 17 Feb 201722 Firs Avenue Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3RT
Received 31 Jan 201411 Mill Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4ND
Received 19 May 20095 Rectory Close Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5HW
Received 22 Sept 2023Records 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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