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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20,229 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
62 Amhurst Gardens Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Oct 20044 Arthur Avenue Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Apr 2002Hill Farm Martham Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Mar 1997Gainsborough Court Shadingfield Close Great Yarmouth NR30 3JW
Received 23 May 20254 Tudor Walk Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Apr 2001Unit 1 Marine Park Gapton Hall Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 0NB
Received 17 May 2023Mautby Lane Decoy Wood (Land at) Mautby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3EJ
Received 9 Jul 201812 Elizabeth Crescent Caister-on-sea NR30 5LT
Received 26 Feb 2026Caerleon Lodge Norwich Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5JR
Received 23 Jan 201210 Humber Close Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5UF
Received 18 Aug 2014Fritton Lake Countryworld Church Lane Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9HA
Received 17 Jan 20063-6 Suffolk Place Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2BN
Received 11 Jun 201099 Beccles Road Bradwell NR31 8HA
Received 24 Feb 20257 Cedar Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8JA
Received 28 Feb 201261 Trafalgar Road East Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6NX
Received 7 Apr 1995South Denes Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3NA
Received 22 Oct 2020Belton Fen Stepshort Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Dec 20061 Fulmar Close Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 8JG
Received 21 Apr 2011Beech Trees (Land at rear of) North Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 17 Oct 200610 Heather Gardens Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9PP NR31 9PP
Received 19 Sept 201658 Yarmouth Road (adjacent) Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Mar 199619 The Staithe Belton Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 9LL
Received 17 Jan 20123A The Pastures Hemsby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 4HF NR29 4HF
Received 10 Jan 200731 Southtown Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 0DU
Received 9 Nov 2018Records 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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