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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20,227 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hemsby Beach Holiday Village Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4HT
Received 30 Oct 200218 Clay Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Oct 1995Filby Club Room Filby Playing Field Main Road Filby Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Apr 2003Charmurly Damgate Back Lane Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Jul 2004208 Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Jun 20054 Warren Road Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 6JT NR31 6JT
Received 7 Jun 200015 Crab Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8DJ
Received 4 Oct 20224 Greyfriars Way Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2QE
Received 17 Dec 200827 The Green Brooklyn House Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4PL
Received 13 Sept 201714 Pound Lane Gorleston NR31 7QX
Received 8 Oct 202517 Taylors Loke Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4LW
Received 16 Nov 2004132 Green Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 28 May 199839 John Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 6LF
Received 28 Jun 2021238 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JQ
Received 26 Jun 2013Flat 2 49 High Street Caister on Sea
Received 30 Jul 201426-26A Northgate Street The Laundry Rooms Great Yarmouth NR30 1BA NR30 1BA
Received 26 Nov 201014 Camperdown White House GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 3JB
Received 16 Feb 20162 St Johns Avenue Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7JZ
Received 9 Feb 2022Malvern High Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QL
Received 16 Mar 2005Back Lane (land at) Rollesby Great Yarmouth (rear of cottage, Main Road)
Received 24 Mar 1999Highfield Farm Heath Road Rollesby NR29 5HJ
Received 22 Apr 202434 Regent Street Great Yarmouth
Received 31 Jan 1997Wild Duck Caravan Park Howards Common Belton with Browston Great Yarmouth NR31 9NE
Received 30 May 20247 Seafield Road South Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5LF
Received 30 Jan 2019Records 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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