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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
20,923 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lynn Grove VA High School Lynn Grove Gorleston (Parish of Bradwell) Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Jan 2010O/s 9 Hall Road Martham NR29 4FB
Received 29 Sept 2025Church Farm Freehouse Church Farm Burgh Castle Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Jun 2003Mildred Stone House Lawn Avenue GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1QS
Received 18 Oct 2016South Beach Parade Land adjacent to Power Station Great Yarmouth NR30 3QF
Received 24 Aug 2010Unit 3 Bloodhills Farm Collis Lane East Somerton Norfolk
Received 18 Apr 2007Broadlands Acle Bridge Acle Great Yarmouth (Fleggburgh Parish)
Received 27 May 2003Winterton Playing Field Somerton Road Winterton Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Jun 1998Wood Farm (part of) Wood Farm Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Jan 1999Braewood Adjacent Burgh House Residential Care Home High Road Burgh Castle NR31 9QL
Received 19 Nov 2024RSPCA Clinic, Tar Works Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1QR
Received 9 Feb 2026East Coast Waste Yard Harfreys Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0LS
Received 17 Feb 201017 Spruce Avenue Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3RY
Received 27 Sept 2012157 King Street Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Dec 1994North Denes Airfield Yarmouth Road West Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Mar 199543 The Cobbleways Winterton GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4AG
Received 16 Mar 2015The Hyde Main Road A1064 Fleggburgh Norfolk NR29 3AG
Received 7 Aug 202515 The Fairway Gorleston Great Yarmouth (Hopton Parish) NR31 6JS
Received 24 Jul 200235 Lichfield Road Lichfield Post Office Southtown Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Aug 2003Garden Villa Browston Lane Browston NR31 9DL
Received 15 Dec 2023Abbeville Lodge, Acle New Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1SE
Received 14 Sept 202632 Riverside Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6PU
Received 12 May 202118 Half Moon Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6TE
Received 22 Feb 200525 South Garden Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6TL
Received 31 Jan 2012Records 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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