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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
20,266 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,234 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dairy Farm 37 Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret W Scratby NR29 3QE
Received 28 Jan 20229 Edinburgh Close Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5LU
Received 17 Mar 20142 Marsh View Cottage River Way, Belton Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 9NR
Received 31 Jul 2007Church Hall Site Church Lane Filby Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Feb 20072 Sandringham Avenue Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Jan 199816 Regent Road (rear of) GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2AF
Received 9 Mar 201544 Horsley Drive Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 7RD
Received 4 Apr 2008Mickrandella - The annexe at Cowtrott Cowtrott Lane Rollesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5ED
Received 19 May 2022The Ivy 5 Gurney Close Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9TZ
Received 16 Aug 2005Fleetwood 186 Church Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6NU
Received 1 Aug 201210 Burnt Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0PF
Received 7 Jul 2003Field View Tower Road Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Jun 2000351 El Alamein Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 24 May 20021 Coastguard Cottages Winterton Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 17 Oct 2006Upper Wood Farmhouse Browns Lane Mautby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3JQ
Received 18 Sept 2020146/147 Bells Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 6AG NR31 6AG
Received 9 May 2007Church Walk Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Mar 2004Covent Garden Road (land off) Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Jun 200048 Coxswain Read Way Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Jul 200247 Buxton Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6HF
Received 7 Aug 200215 Paget Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2DN
Received 5 Sept 2019Rose Farm High Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QL
Received 30 Apr 201214 Symonds Avenue Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3PN
Received 23 Sept 20213 Seamans Cottages Sidegate Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Feb 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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