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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20,791 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn.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: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
McDonald's Restuarant Asda Carpark Runham Vauxhall GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1SF
Received 22 Jun 202128 Garnham Road (rear of) Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PB
Received 18 Oct 2011Common Road Southtown Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Oct 200418 Beach Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Oct 2003Marshlands, Main Road Billockby Great Yarmouth NR29 3BG
Received 5 Feb 201434 Englands Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 6BE
Received 17 Sept 200735 Pound Lane Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7QX
Received 31 Jan 2019Swanstons Road (former bakery premises) Great Yarmouth NR30 5NQ
Received 2 Sept 20083 Camperdown Great Yarmouth NR30 3JB
Received 18 Jul 200137 Albion Road Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Feb 200544 Orwell Crescent Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NZ
Received 16 Aug 2011Bush Road off Edward Road Winterton Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Sept 20029 Longfellow Road Caister-on-sea Great Yarmout Norfolk NR30 5RG
Received 22 Dec 2022Ivy House Burnt Lane Great Yarmouth NR31 0PA
Received 13 Feb 2024Winterton Fish Bar, Beach Road Winterton on Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 30 Jan 2006135 Northgate Street Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Jul 199835 El Alamein Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Jul 200219 Rollesby Road (land adjo) Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 1 May 199714 Hertford Way Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7LH
Received 30 Oct 201824 Victory Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9GA
Received 22 Jan 2025133 King Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2PQ
Received 5 Nov 2013Unit G Purley Court Gapton Hall Road GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0LZ NR31 0LZ
Received 27 Sept 2016Playing Field Waters Lane Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NH
Received 7 Nov 200810 Belstead Avenue Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Jan 2004Records 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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