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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20,791 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 4 Woodfarm Lane Bradwell NR31 9YN
Received 12 Dec 202340 Cliff Hill Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 6DQ
Received 6 Sept 2022156 Burgh Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8AX
Received 3 Apr 20198 Connaught Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Feb 199587 Lowestoft Road Albion Public House Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 28 May 19971 Little Scratby Crescent Scratby Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Feb 2002Yarmouth Road (Land at) Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4WS
Received 30 Apr 202637 Cess Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QX
Received 12 Nov 2015Exeter Road Magdalen Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 7QE
Received 11 Jan 2024Hall Farm, Pipistrelle Barn Beccles Road Belton Belton With Browston NR31 9JQ
Received 21 Oct 2022Land adj Foster Close Ormesby St Margaret
Received 24 Mar 2025Manor Farm Cottage Chapel Road Runham Great Yarmouth NR29 3HA
Received 3 Aug 2001Albert Gate Road (Land at) GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3HN
Received 15 Jan 2015Land east of Lowestoft Road, and north of Longfulans Lane Hopton-on-sea Great Yarmouth NR31 9TE
Received 17 Oct 2024Church Farm Public House Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth NR31 9QG
Received 26 May 199957 Repps Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Jun 1994Cherry Trees Main Road Ormesby St Michael GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3LW
Received 21 Dec 20167 Chestnut Avenue Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Apr 2001The Wickets Bush Road Winterton-On-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4BZ
Received 7 Dec 2021Broadview King Street Winterton on Sea Great Yarmouth NR29 4AT
Received 11 Apr 20052 and 4 Damgate Back Lane (Land adj) Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QB
Received 30 Mar 2015Telephone Exchange West Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Jun 19957-9 Regent Road Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Jan 1995Hewett Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Jun 2000Records 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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