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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
20,818 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Nova Scotia Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Nov 1994The Old Hall High Street Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5JL
Received 27 Apr 201612A Jasmine Gardens Bradwell NR31 8HX
Received 17 Sept 2025103 Beccles Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 8AB
Received 26 Sept 2007Land adjacent to Foster Close Ormesby St Margaret
Received 20 May 2026St Nicholas Drive Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Oct 20241 Bendish Avenue Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6EE
Received 24 May 200112 The Cove Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9LA
Received 6 Jul 200513 Hall Quay The Dukes Head Great Yarmouth NR30 1HP
Received 27 Jul 1998Town Hall Hall Plain Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2QF
Received 26 Oct 200714 Mallard Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8JJ
Received 24 Apr 200843 Market Row GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1PB
Received 9 Oct 201920 Wellesley Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2AR
Received 21 Jul 201616-17 South Quay Great Yarmouth NR30 2RA
Received 6 Sept 2022Welcome Pit Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Nov 2000115 Regent Road British Home Stores Great Yarmouth NR30 2AB
Received 2 Dec 2002204 Northgate Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1DB
Received 8 Dec 20154 Worcester Close Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3RN
Received 5 Sept 2014137 Mill Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 0HS
Received 8 Mar 2019South Gorleston Development Area Land to west of A12 and south of James Paget Hospital Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Sept 200215 Provan Crescent Belton Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 31 Oct 200660 The Green Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PA
Received 11 Feb 199921 Mill Road Cobholm Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Jul 19965/7 Kingsway Spar Foodmarket Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR28 4JT
Received 17 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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