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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
20,919 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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8 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6LY
Received 20 Jun 2008234 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Jul 199643 Westerley Way Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5AJ
Received 5 Jul 2021Seacroft (Hemsby) Ltd Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4HR
Received 7 Oct 1999Former First and Last Public House Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret W Scratby NR29 3QG
Received 16 Mar 2024Palmers P&D Car Park Howard Street South Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Oct 1997Wellington Pier Wellington Theatre Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 27 Jan 199515 Hall Quay Barclays Bank plc Great Yarmouth NR30 1HL
Received 12 Feb 2004Blue Sky Park Market Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 17 May 2004Wood View Tower Road Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Aug 1995Plot 4 off Market Road Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 3 Jan 1996Gas House Quay Southtown Road Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Jun 1999St Marys Catholic Rectory Church Regent Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2AJ
Received 20 Sept 2012East Consortium The Conge GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1JN
Received 18 Aug 2017Bridge Farm Acle Bridge Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth NR13 3AT
Received 20 Mar 2000Plot 2 Common Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4LT
Received 9 Dec 2002Seadell Chalet Park Beach Road Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4HJ
Received 14 Jun 202111 Somerton Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Mar 200044 Market Place GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1PA
Received 19 Dec 2016Rowena Yarmouth Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 19 Feb 2003Woodbine Cottage Court Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5HG
Received 30 Nov 2001Willowmead (land at) Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3QG NR29 3QG
Received 1 Sept 20107 Bittern Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Sept 1998Martham Village Hall Car Park White Street Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4PG
Received 17 Aug 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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