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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
20,791 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 5 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Beccles Road Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8DF NR31 8DF
Received 8 Mar 201726 Beccles Road (Former Shamrock Motors Site) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8DF
Received 24 May 2016McDonalds Restaurant Purley Court Great Yarmouth NR31 0LZ
Received 7 Feb 2011Flegg High School Somerton Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QD
Received 21 Mar 2016Former First and Last Public House Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret W Scratby NR29 3QG
Received 16 Mar 2024Da'Volls Court Church Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Mar 2003Blue Sky Park Market Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 17 May 20041 Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Dec 2001Three Ways Mill Road Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QS
Received 20 Apr 202011 Broad Row Oriental Tastes Great Yarmouth (warehouse rear of)
Received 8 May 2000Seachange Arts, The Drill Hall York Road Great Yarmouth NR30 2LZ
Received 9 Nov 2013Great Yarmouth College Lichfield Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0ED
Received 7 Nov 202442 Well Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1ER
Received 3 Jul 1997Former Pontins Holiday Centre Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4JU
Received 14 Sept 202323 Hall Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 1HQ
Received 21 Nov 200296 Caister Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4DP
Received 13 Feb 201536 Well Street Great Yarmouth
Received 17 Aug 199830A Hall Plain GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2QD
Received 16 Oct 2018Land at Maltings House Malthouse Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Oct 2005Westgrove (south of) Rollesby Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Mar 2000Magdalen House Magdalen Square Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BZ
Received 13 Feb 200938 Coxswain Read Way Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Jul 1997Hall Road Martham Great Yarmouth (J D Lown and Co Coal Yard and Bowling Green)
Received 20 Jun 200335/36 Market Place Halifax Building Society Great Yarmouth NR30 1LX
Received 4 Oct 1994Records 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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