Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
20,232 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Britannia Road Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Dec 2001Lower Wood Farm Mautby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3JQ
Received 30 Jun 2009Atlantis Resort 32 Marine Parade Great Yarmouth NR30 2EW
Received 25 Oct 2023Land at Nova Scotia Farm West of Jack Chase Way Caister-On-Sea
Received 8 Jan 20248 Victoria Street Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Sept 199415 Marine Crescent Great Yarmouth NR30 4ET
Received 24 May 2005Hopton Holiday Village Warren Road Hopton-on-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BW
Received 1 Sept 2015Land Adjoining 2 Queen Annes Road Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0LE
Received 1 Dec 2025Bush Road off Edward Road Winterton Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Oct 19962 Evans Lombe Close Repps Great Yarmouth NR29 5JR
Received 11 Sept 200235 Orchard Way Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth
Received 17 Jun 2004119 Palgrave Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1QE
Received 12 Nov 200816 Beach Road Ivy Cottage Scratby Great Yarmouth
Received 31 Oct 199650 King Street Great Yarmouth
Received 27 May 19989 Sun Lane (adjoining) Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8PY
Received 31 Mar 1995Briarcroft Porters Loke Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Jul 2004114 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6RE
Received 9 Jun 200927 Cormorant Way Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9UH
Received 29 May 2019Tanglewood St Johns Road Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Feb 20014 Bloodhills Farm Bloodhills East Somerton Great Yarmouth NR29 4DU NR29 4DU
Received 1 Nov 2005Cliff Hotel Cliff Hill Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6DH
Received 21 Nov 201789 Beach Road Caister-on-Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5HD
Received 1 Feb 202341 Clydesdale Rise Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Apr 2002Great Yarmouth Esplanade Adjacent Bowling Greens North Drive/Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Oct 2007Records 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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