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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.
20,229 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hall Farmhouse Main Road Filby Great Yarmouth NR29 3HS
Received 18 Sept 20122 Blyth Road (adjacent) Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Sept 2001The Timber Yard Decoy Road Ormesby St Michael GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3LZ
Received 8 May 2021Gapton Hall Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 16 Jan 200618 Edinburgh Close Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 31 Jul 2000Coast Road (Land to south of Potters Resort Main Buildings) Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BX
Received 16 Sept 2015Tuddenham Caravan Park California Road California Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3QW
Received 2 Dec 20224 South Quay Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2QH
Received 26 Nov 201259 North Drive GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4EX
Received 28 Nov 201739 Holly Avenue Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8NL NR31 8NL
Received 4 Jul 20165 The Laurels Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9DD
Received 19 Jun 2003South Yarmouth Area Housing Office (north of 90a King Street) Great Yarmouth NR30 2PR
Received 1 Oct 2026Main Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Jun 2001Repps Road (Land South of) Martham GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 12 Feb 20211a Alderson Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 6 Dec 2005O'Gradys Public House 72 Howard Street South Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1LN
Received 30 Dec 202243 Staithe Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4DY
Received 24 May 2001Trafalgar Road West Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Aug 1996Row 97 (Substation) Howard Street South GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2PS
Received 31 May 2016Barleycroft Yarmouth Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 22 May 19974 Marguerite Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8RL
Received 6 Jul 2018Williamson's Lookout High Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR31 0PB
Received 1 May 2007The Jetty (land west and adj) Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Oct 199991 California Avenue Scratby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3PE
Received 28 Jan 2013Records 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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