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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
20,789 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Hales House King Street Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4AT
Received 4 Jul 20028 Beeleigh Way Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Nov 2002Planet Spice Restaurant 2 Filby Lane Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3JR
Received 17 May 2012Buildings at ASCO Gas House Quay Facility and Bollards Quay Southtown Road/Beccles Road GREAT YARMOUTH
Received 31 Jul 2019Former Edward Worlledge School Lichfield Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0ED
Received 10 May 2024Whitethorn Lodge Town Road Burgh St Margaret Great Yarmouth (r/o Whitethorn Farm) (Fleggburgh Parish) NR29 3AB
Received 14 Apr 20031 The Street West Somerton Great Yarmouth NR29 4EA
Received 26 Jun 2026Britannia House 16 Hall Quay Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 14 Nov 2005Buxted Foods Ltd Hewett Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 0NN
Received 13 Aug 199740 California Crescent California Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3QP
Received 26 Feb 2010Yarmouth Road (Former Esso Filling Station) Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 18 Jun 201280, 81 and 82 Regent Road Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Jul 1996The Conifers Thrigby Road Filby Great Yarmouth NR29 3HJ
Received 6 Sept 2004Rainbow Store Yarmouth Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Sept 199934 Regent Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1RR
Received 5 Aug 199623 Claydon Grove Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 8AT
Received 12 Mar 2021'Gemini' Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9PU
Received 5 Feb 2008Oakhill Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QD
Received 17 Apr 201280 Riverside White Rose Repps Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Jan 2005Carpetright Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Sept 19961 Station Road Recovery for Mentally Ill Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Nov 1998Ferry House South Denes Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 3PQ
Received 26 Jan 2022Charity Farm Thrigby Great Yarmouth NR29 3DS
Received 21 Jan 200021 Station Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Nov 1997Records 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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