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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
20,449 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Terrys Stores 1a Sandown Road Great Yarmouth
Received 6 May 200319 Appleton Drive Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Apr 20022 Queen Annes Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0LE
Received 7 Oct 2009Runham Hall Runham Great Yarmouth NR29 3EE
Received 16 Jun 200397 Salisbury Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4LS
Received 11 Oct 200435 Jellicoe Road Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Aug 2003Shamrock Cottage Pit Road Hemsby NR29 4LG
Received 7 Feb 20241 Forestry Cottage, New Road Fritton Fritton And St Olaves Great Yarmouth NR31 9HR
Received 2 Jul 2026The Chimneys Hall Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Mar 20111-7 Breydon Mews School Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1LQ
Received 28 Feb 2017256 Southtown Road Seaquest Service Station Great Yarmouth NR31 0JJ
Received 25 Oct 2012Burnt Lane (Land off) Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 15 Jan 2014Recreation Ground, Pavilion Waters Lane Hemsby NR29 4NH
Received 4 Sept 20254 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8HL
Received 4 Oct 2004Land to the east of Manships Farm Cottage Main Road Ormesby
Received 4 Nov 2025Unit 1 Pasteur Retail Park Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0DH NR31 0DH
Received 19 Apr 200682-84 Walpole Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4NG
Received 16 May 2026Land South of Manor Farm Cottage Browston Lane Browston Green Great Yarmouth NR31 9DP
Received 4 Jan 2023Corner Bungalow 55 Bulmer Lane Winterton-on-SEa Great Yarmouth NR29 4AF
Received 29 Nov 202257 Seaview Rise Bancrest Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 6SE
Received 2 Jun 1999Thompsons Fish/Chip Restaurant The Causeway Repps (adja demolished Bridge P H)
Received 20 Mar 1996Shopping Centre High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6RL
Received 19 Aug 20102 Glebe Corner Runham Swim Mautby Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Nov 199666 Station Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Sept 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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