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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20,228 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
St Michaels Church Main Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth
Received 15 May 2001Nova Scotia Farm Nova Scotia Road West Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR20 5SH
Received 15 Sept 2017Post Office 183 King Street GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1LS
Received 20 Jun 2016The Gallery The Courtyard Main Cross Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 3NZ
Received 19 May 2016Humberstone Farm Mill Road Cobholm (adjacent Breydon Water) (Bradwell Parish)
Received 21 Sept 1994Cavalier Lodge Kennels Oak Farm Court Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5HQ
Received 6 Feb 200876A Repps Riverbank Repps with Bastwick Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 16 Feb 200723 Hall Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 1HQ
Received 21 Nov 2002M T Skips North River Road Eurocentre Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Apr 199950 Almond Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 27 May 199830 Waunci Crescent Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6EB
Received 11 Feb 2004Matalan Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0JB
Received 15 Apr 1998Unit 5 Pasteur Retail Park Thamesfield Way Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Mar 2004Pavement outside 166 King Street Great Yarmouth NR30 2PA
Received 15 Dec 2025The Croft Martham Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Oct 20088 Quay Ostend Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Nov 200039 Falkland Way Bradwell NR31 8RW
Received 22 Nov 2024110 Springfield Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6AE
Received 21 Dec 202240 Warren Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6JT
Received 20 Feb 2020Coach House Res Home Yarmouth Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NJ
Received 12 Mar 2001Land off Hall Road Hopton
Received 21 Mar 202462 Salisbury Road North Denes Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR30 4JZ
Received 4 Dec 2006Caister Lifeboat Station Skippers Walk Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5DJ
Received 23 Dec 2021Hall Farm Lords Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9EP
Received 14 Aug 2001Records 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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