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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20,229 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
256 Southtown Road Seaquest Service Station GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0JJ NR31 0JJ
Received 12 Dec 201630 Homefield Avenue Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8NS
Received 24 Sept 2018Hall Farm Business Park Martham Road Rollesby NR29 5DR
Received 4 Jul 20241 King Street Burtons Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Jun 199824 Ormesby Road Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5LB NR30 5LB
Received 12 Oct 200538 Four Acres Estate Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4JB
Received 8 Aug 200267 Blackwall Reach Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6SA
Received 17 Mar 202532-33 Market Place GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1LX
Received 13 Jun 201824 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8HL
Received 12 Mar 2001Greenways Low Road Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4BJ
Received 2 May 200636 Clover Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Aug 200414 Middleton Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 7AB
Received 14 Sept 2011Shrublands Community Centre Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Aug 20024 Wensum Way Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Jun 199711 King Street Great Yarmouth NR30 2BA
Received 1 Nov 200442 Laburnum Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8JB
Received 2 Jul 2018137 Mill Road Cobholm GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0HS
Received 7 Aug 2018Moss Rose Cottage Narrowgate Corner Court House Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Dec 200031A North Drive Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 4EW
Received 22 Feb 202365/65a/67/67a Magdalen Way 20/20a/22/22a Western Road 18/18a/20/20a St Catherines Wy Gorleston
Received 10 Nov 1995Myhill Nurseries Beccles Road Fritton Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 8 Nov 200726 Laburnum Close Bradwell NR31 8JB
Received 19 Jul 2024Unit 4 off Hewett Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Jun 19941 Cliff Park Cottages Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JL
Received 2 Jun 2003Records 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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