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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
20,940 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dolphin Public House Old Fishermans Wharf South Denes Road Great Yarmouth
Received 28 Apr 1997Magdalen Methodist Church Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7DB
Received 19 Jun 2002Court Road Lenroy Rollesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5ET
Received 29 Jun 2015Summerfields Holiday Village Beach Road Scratby Great Yarmouth NR29 3NW
Received 4 Nov 2009Units 1a - 1c Boundary Road Great Yarmouth
Received 11 May 199553 Chaucer Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4HA
Received 16 Apr 201931 Prince of Wales Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 22 Oct 20012 Yarmouth Road The Lodge Ormesby St Margaret NR29 3QB
Received 12 Feb 201667 Mallard Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 8LX
Received 25 Jun 200754 Old Church Road Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9BZ
Received 18 Dec 2017The Chicken Farm Market Lane Filby Heath Filby Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Jan 2004Three Acres (land adjoining) Winterton Road West Somerton Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Oct 1999Windmill Care Home Main Road Rollesby Great Yarmouth NR29 5ER
Received 28 Jul 20143 Cliff Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth (Hopton Parish) NR31 6JY
Received 7 Feb 200559 Ormesby Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5QA
Received 22 Aug 2002Pavement outside 33 Market Gates Great Yarmouth NR30 2AF
Received 15 Dec 20253 Broad Cottages Main Road Rollesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 5EF
Received 26 Feb 2021Humberstone Farm Mill Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0AY
Received 15 Jan 202525 Elmgrove Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7PP
Received 22 Oct 2012Pavement outside 17-18 Broad Row Great Yarmouth NR30 1HT
Received 15 Dec 202519 Hall Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4PD
Received 24 Jul 2017The Villa 1 Garfield Terrace Caister NR30 5DG
Received 7 Jul 2025Church Farm Barn Main Road Clippesby Great Yarmouth NR29 3BQ
Received 24 Feb 199838 Marine Parade Magic City/Merlins Great Yarmouth NR30 2EJ
Received 25 Mar 2004Records 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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