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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
20,830 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Paston Cottage 6 Black Street Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4PN
Received 16 Mar 2018The Iron Duke Public House North Drive Great Yarmouth NR30 4HF
Received 4 Jul 2025Foster Close (extension of) Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3PP
Received 10 Jul 20089 Lovewell Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6LG
Received 4 Feb 202537 Claydon Grove Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8AU
Received 17 Sept 201011 Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8HL
Received 6 Feb 200264 Beccles Road Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 8HF
Received 11 Feb 2021Lake View Cottage Beccles Road Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9HB
Received 19 Apr 2011Folly Court Cottages Court Road Rollesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5HQ
Received 12 Dec 2019Pump Lane Caister Recycling Centre Waste Transfer Site West Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5TE
Received 20 Jan 2016118 Wellesley Road Great Yarmouth
Received 17 Oct 1995Cobholm Playing Field Cobholm Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Feb 199732 Norwich Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Oct 199447 Northgate Street GREAT YARMOUTH (rear of) NR30 1BJ
Received 17 Feb 202150 Northgate Street Great Yarmouth NR30 1BJ
Received 5 Apr 2006Market Place Great Yarmouth (public space adjacent Burtons)
Received 30 Sept 2003Hemsby Playing Field Waters Lane Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Oct 2004Existing Arqiva Mast Sefton Lane off Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0QX
Received 24 Dec 200820a Yarmouth Road Claremont Nursing Home Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5AA
Received 8 Nov 2004A47 (land adjoining) G Y Bypass/Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Nov 1995Bure Park Pitch and Putt Caister Road Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Aug 2002Heath Farm Poultry Farm Blanks Close (off Market Lane) Filby Great Yarmouth NR29 3ST
Received 20 Apr 2024The Thatched Barn Hall Road Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9AX
Received 7 Nov 20177 Church Plain The Wrestlers Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Dec 1996Records 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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