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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20,227 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Garfield Road Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Feb 199944/46 Northgate Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1BJ
Received 18 Sept 201459 St Nicholas Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1NP
Received 26 Oct 202359 Station Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3NH
Received 10 Jun 2004Shadingfield Lodge Marine Parade Great Yarmouth NR30 3JG
Received 29 Mar 2000Flegg High School Somerton Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4QD
Received 22 Jun 2001Broadsands 44 Nightingale Close Scratby Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3NR
Received 5 Dec 20161 Coronation Cottages Cess Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Nov 199741 Clover Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8RH
Received 13 Feb 200960 St Nicholas Drive Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5QS NR30 5QS
Received 22 Feb 2007West Acre Chapel Lane West Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5TA
Received 12 Jan 2001Repps Service Station High Road Repps with Bastwick Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Aug 201332 Blake Drive Bradwell NR31 9GW
Received 9 Apr 202023 Manorfield Close Ormesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3RF
Received 30 May 2022Tretts Mill North Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Jun 1995The Drill House York Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2LZ
Received 4 Apr 20176 Balmoral Avenue Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Feb 19997 The Green Martham Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR29 4AH
Received 30 May 20077 Station Road South Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9JG
Received 20 Dec 201720 Marguerite Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8RL NR31 8RL
Received 12 Apr 2007200 Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8QD
Received 4 Dec 200958 Bately Avenue Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6HN
Received 30 Mar 20156 Beavans Court Mill Road Cobholm Great Yarmouth NR31 0QS
Received 15 Jan 200350 South Denes Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3PR
Received 31 Mar 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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