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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
20,946 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot No. 2, Town Road & Peartree Cottage, Town Road Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 23 Jun 200612 Mill Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 4ND
Received 22 Feb 200887 Nelson Road Central Great Yarmouth NR30 3BP
Received 8 Mar 2002Joint Halfords/Homestyle Unit Citygrove Retail Park Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Sept 1994The Old Depot Cess Road Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4RF
Received 5 Jul 200241 Wellesley Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1EX
Received 24 Feb 2000Links Hotel Marine Parade Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Jun 199711 Shrublands Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8DU
Received 31 Dec 20241 Fisher Avenue GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 4BD
Received 5 Mar 2021Malthouse Site (offices) Malthouse Lane Southtown Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Apr 199814 West Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3RP
Received 8 Apr 200941 King Street Great Yarmouth NR30 2PN
Received 3 Feb 200452 Keble Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 7NA NR31 7NA
Received 18 Nov 200518 Warren Road Gorleston (Parish of Hopton) Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 6JT
Received 12 Mar 20091 Windsor Road Caister-on-sea NR30 5LS
Received 26 Feb 202445 Trafalgar Road East Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Jan 1995Offshore Testing Services Viking Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell
Received 22 Sept 199565 Avondale Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Sept 19972 Glebe Corner Mautby Great Yarmouth NR29 3ED
Received 1 Jun 1995Harfreys Road Harfreys Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth NR31 0LS
Received 4 Jan 201058 Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth (garden plots adjoining) NR29 3QG
Received 9 May 2002Norfolk Coastal Centre for Independent Life Woodfarm Lane Gorleston NR31 9AQ
Received 25 Feb 2009109 Burgh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Apr 2004Hemsby Belle Aire Beach Road Hemsby NR29 4HZ
Received 25 Jul 2023Records 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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