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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20,229 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Byron Way Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5RW
Received 11 Jul 2001Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 132 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6QU
Received 28 Feb 2013St Nicholas P&D Car Park South Beach Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Oct 199780/82 Regent Road Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Nov 1996103 Wellesley Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2AR
Received 4 Nov 20208 The Green The Greenways Martham NR29 4PA
Received 11 Sept 20144 Fell Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9UF
Received 8 Feb 201136 Church Lane Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7BE NR31 7BE
Received 30 Mar 2016Eastles Farm House Market Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9EN
Received 2 May 201213 North Road Spar Stores Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3SA
Received 2 Oct 2012Mill Farm House Hemsby Road Winterton-on-sea Great Yarmouth NR29 4AE
Received 23 Sept 2023Seaside Cottage Bush Road Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4BY
Received 20 Sept 2000Beech Tree Cottage Main Road A1064 Fleggburgh NR29 3AG
Received 17 Aug 2025Land east of Effective Imaging Ltd Fenner Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3PS
Received 3 Dec 2025Sharmans Loke (adjacent) Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Mar 199812 Leathway Kamada Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3QA
Received 9 Jul 202020 North Road (Land to rear) Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Nov 201230 Trafalgar Rd East (land rear of) (Fronting Back Chapel Lane) Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Sept 20019 Westgrove Rollesby Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4RU
Received 23 Feb 2021Royal Naval Hospital 3 The Cottages Great Yarmouth NR30 3JT
Received 31 Mar 200437 Exmouth Road Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Jul 1999Eastern Beach Holiday Park Manor Road Caister NR30 5HH
Received 27 Jan 2025Unit B Harman Buildings Pommers Lane Great Yarmouth NR30 3PE
Received 27 Jun 2000Weismain (land within site of) Burgh Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Jul 2002Records 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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