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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
20,899 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Beech Farm Beccles Road Belton Belton With Browston NR31 9JQ
Received 8 Oct 2022Great Yarmouth Racecourse Jellicoe Road Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Jun 2005141 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Oct 199810 Burgh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8BE
Received 28 May 2023143 King Street GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2PQ
Received 26 Jun 202020 Stafford Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0EX
Received 25 Nov 2002Windermere North Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4LN
Received 8 Aug 20051 Decoy Road Ormesby St. Margaret with Scratby NR29 3LG
Received 24 Mar 2025Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd St. Nicholas Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1NN
Received 6 Aug 2012Long Bar Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Feb 1998Aubretia Beccles Road Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9HB
Received 23 Oct 2001Cane Craft Lowestoft Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Feb 2004The Stores North Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Oct 199924 Orwell Crescent Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Jan 199511 Warren Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6JT (Parish of Hopton)
Received 3 Dec 200729 North Drive (opposite) Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Jul 200020 Cotman Drive Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 9RE
Received 1 Mar 202325 Gaywood Close Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5RD
Received 13 Dec 201011 Rowan Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 1 May 200326 Bunnewell Avenue Bradwell NR31 8RQ
Received 1 May 20251 Caledonian Way Belton Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 9PQ
Received 9 Nov 200715 Decoy Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3LG
Received 30 Sept 2010Burgh Castle Marina and Caravan Park Butt Lane Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Apr 200421 St Peters Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 3BQ
Received 21 Jun 2018Records 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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