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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20,791 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Marsh Cottage Staithe Road Repps Great Yarmouth NR29 5JU
Received 3 Jun 200450 Station Road North (adja) Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Aug 1995Palmers Store Thomas Cook Market Place Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Sept 1997China Boy (formerly Curry Hut) The Crescent Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Apr 1999Units 4/5 Cooke House Brinell Way Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0LU
Received 31 Mar 200666 Repps Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QT
Received 16 Feb 2016Site 25 Beacon Park Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Oct 202458 Market Place Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1NX NR30 1NX
Received 17 Sept 2009Whynot King Street Winterton Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Jun 1996Caister Holiday Park Ormesby Road Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5NQ
Received 21 Jan 20215 Pipistrelle Close Great Yarmouth Fleggburgh NR29 3FF
Received 30 Jun 202629 Hall Plain (Rear of) Row 71 GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2QD
Received 13 Oct 2017Back Lane Rollesby Great Yarmouth (adj Romany Close)
Received 21 Nov 2002Unit 9D Global House Harfreys Road Harfreys Ind.Est Great Yarmouth NR31 0LS
Received 31 Jul 2014Knightly Manor Barn Ferrygate Lane Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QJ
Received 4 Feb 2021Sealife Centre Marine Parade GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3AH
Received 15 Jun 2021North River Road Eurocentre Great Yarmouth (former Spencer Younge Eng Ltd)
Received 22 Aug 1994Peterhouse First/Middle School Peterhouse Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Jan 2002Burnley Hall Estate Dark Lane East Somerton Somerton NR29 4DZ
Received 17 Mar 202333 Malthouse Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0HL
Received 21 Jul 20107 Norwich Road Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth NR30 5JW
Received 17 Mar 20109 Westerley Close Caister-on-sea NR30 5AL
Received 16 Oct 2025Focus DIY Gapton Hall Retail Park Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0NI
Received 6 Nov 199811 Long Beach Estate Winterton-on-Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 13 Oct 2008Records 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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