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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
20,815 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,235 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38/41 Camperdown Embassy Hotel GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5JB
Received 17 Jun 201689 Beach Road CAISTER-ON-SEA Norfolk NR30 5HD
Received 24 Feb 2022Former First and Last Public House Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret W Scratby NR29 3QG
Received 16 Mar 2024Sheridan Grove Lords Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 9DY
Received 23 Aug 2022Unit 3 Pasteur Retail Park (Comet Unit) Great Yarmouth NR31 0DH
Received 5 Mar 2014Hemsby Holiday Centre Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Sept 199864 Amhurst Gardens Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9PJ
Received 15 Aug 201314a Beach Road Scratby Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3AJ
Received 19 May 2020Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth (Pupil Referral Unit Site)
Received 23 Jun 2003The Talbot Howard Street North Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1PF NR30 1PF
Received 25 Oct 2005The Fillies Decoy Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Jul 1997Green Acre Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3QQ
Received 26 Feb 201815 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 8HL
Received 24 May 2007407 The Glebe Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 17 May 200018 Bulmer Lane Winterton-on-sea GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR29 4AF
Received 23 Jan 2023Martham Playing Field Rollesby Road Martham Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 1 Feb 20061 East Anglian Way Health Care Centre Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6TY
Received 11 Oct 2017Sherwood Filby Heath Filby Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Aug 200432 Kitchener Road Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Jul 2003Marine Support Base 266 Southtown Road Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 20 Oct 2006Harfrey's Road Harfrey's Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 16 Apr 2007Brooklyn House, 27 The Green Martham NR29 4PL
Received 5 Mar 2025112 Regent Road Great Yarmouth 112
Received 15 May 200353 Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 7 May 1998Records 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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