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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.
20,228 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Dover Court Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Sept 199426 Victoria Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 6EF
Received 2 Aug 2021Alphabet Nursery High Street Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5EH
Received 4 May 2011Alpha Centre Alpha Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0LG
Received 28 Jul 2022Meadowland Drive (Land South of) (Caraway Drive (Land South of)) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 19 Dec 20172A Roseview Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8UP
Received 18 May 202231 Yarmouth Road Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5DL
Received 4 Jan 20131 Links Close Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5DD
Received 23 May 2002Car Park to the south-west of junction at Howard Street South and Stonecutters Way Great Yarmouth NR30 1LN
Received 8 Mar 202446 St Nicholas Road Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Nov 20004 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8HL
Received 4 Jan 2008Thompsons Cold Store Exmouth Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3DP
Received 1 Feb 202249 Trafalgar Road West Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Jun 199641 Southgates Road (adj) Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Oct 1995126 Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0JZ
Received 17 May 200520 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Oct 1997Foxholme Four Acres Estate Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4JB
Received 22 Nov 2007Selwood Pumps Salmon Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3QS
Received 27 Jan 20147 Pound Lane Filby NR29 3HP
Received 29 Jul 202014 Yallop Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6HA
Received 4 Jun 20091a Arundel Road Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Jul 200211 Broad Row (store at rear) Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1HT
Received 31 Jan 20081 Somerton Road Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4AW
Received 2 Sept 2002White Horse Filling Station Beccles Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8BL
Received 2 Oct 2018Records 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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