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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20,266 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,234 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Holkham Hotel Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Oct 200436a Homefield Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 23 May 2000Sharmans Loke (adjacent) Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Dec 1997Caldecot Farm Decoy Road Ormesby St Michael Great Yarmouth NR29 3LX
Received 18 Mar 20047/9 Long Lane (rear of) Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 17 Mar 2003Unit 31 Yarmouth Business Park Suffolk Road Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Apr 199733 South Garden Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6TL
Received 8 Jul 2010Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens Filby Road Mautby Great Yarmouth NR29 3DR
Received 21 Aug 19971 Daisy Close Martham GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR29 4PJ
Received 16 Mar 2023Former Palmers Store 37-39 Market Place Great Yarmouth NR30 1LJ
Received 4 Oct 2024Lower Esplanade Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 6DT
Received 8 Feb 20228 School Corner Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 8QL
Received 5 Nov 20212 Welbeck Avenue Martham Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 6 Sept 2005Grenholm House The Street Runham Great Yarmouth NR29 3AH
Received 19 Feb 199859 Willow Avenue Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8JH
Received 12 Aug 2019Hopton Manor, The Coach House Hall Road Hopton-on-sea NR31 9AX
Received 2 Nov 202530 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6LY
Received 24 Jul 2026Yarmouth Stadium Yarmouth Road West Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5TE
Received 27 Apr 2017The Gables Farm 3 Hemsby Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4PB
Received 8 Dec 202121 Firs Avenue Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3RT
Received 16 Oct 2017Kontiki Wapping Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3JY
Received 20 Jan 2015Penryn Staithe Road Repps Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Sept 199437 Pavilion Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Oct 1996Cliff Hotel Cliff Hill Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6DH
Received 25 May 2022Records 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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