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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Great Yarmouth Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Great Yarmouth website
20,259 approved · 2,883 refused · 1,232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 Mill Road Cobholm Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Apr 2005Land Adjacent junction of Low Road and Mede Court Repps with Bastwick NR29 5AH
Received 12 Feb 2025The Garden, Black Street Winterton-on-sea Great Yarmouth NR29 4AP
Received 8 Jul 202531 Market Place Great Yarmouth
Received 16 May 2002Caraway High Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Mar 199598 Burgh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8BD
Received 28 May 20139 Girton Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 7JW NR31 7JW
Received 22 May 200627 California Avenue Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3PE
Received 25 Sept 2002Hi-Lo Church Walk Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9DX
Received 24 Sept 1996246 Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0JE
Received 30 Jul 200285 Staithe Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Jul 2005The Old Chapel Scratby Road Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 26 Mar 2018Land Adj Asco Group Ltd Fishwharf South Denes Road Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Feb 201412 Garrison Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1PZ
Received 18 May 2015Great Yarmouth High School Salisbury Road Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Feb 199797 High Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0PE
Received 25 Mar 200241 Queens Crescent Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Mar 1997Old Coast Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Aug 2003Browston Hall Browston (Belton Parish) Great Yarmouth
Received 9 Sept 199837 Stradbroke Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk (plot between 36 & 38)
Received 9 Jun 200635/36 South Quay South Quay Surgery Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Feb 1995Shell Warehouse Southtown Marine Base Berth 26 Southtown Wharf Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Jun 2005Old Hall Farm Lords Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 30 May 2002Boundary Road Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0LW
Received 15 Sept 2000Records 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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