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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
20,957 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
117a Southtown Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0JZ
Received 27 Apr 2000Bremar Stud Porters Loke Burgh Castle NR31 9PX
Received 10 Oct 202423 Provan Crescent Belton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9LW NR31 9LW
Received 10 Nov 2016Land North of Oaklands Farm Sidegate Road Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9AP
Received 4 Aug 20263 Blanden Cottages Beccles Road St Olaves Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 22 Sept 2006The Barn, Broad Farm Barns Back Lane, Rollesby Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 5EE NR29 5EE
Received 27 Sept 2005Land adjacent to Lowestoft Road Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 9RN
Received 19 Jan 2021Back Lane (land at) Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Dec 1995Fleggburgh Village Hall Main Road Fleggburgh NR29 3AG
Received 21 Apr 202630 Station Road Hopton Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Jan 199919 King Street Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 2NZ
Received 17 Sept 2009Top Body Gym Unit 28 Longs Ind.Estate Englands Lane Gorleston, Great Yarmouth
Received 17 Feb 2012Bernard Road Gorleston NR31 6EG
Received 7 Feb 2024Caister County First School Kingston Avenue Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 2 Aug 19943 Garden Court Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8HH
Received 2 Apr 2012Gorleston Development Area Gorleston Great Yarmouth (Site 1)
Received 28 Jul 2003Holywell The Street Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4EU
Received 21 Mar 2018ASDA Vauxhall Station GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 1SF
Received 27 Dec 20181 Grove Farm Cottage (land at) Black Street Martham Great Yarmouth NR29 4PN
Received 9 May 2006Mercator Works Fenner Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3QQ
Received 13 Jun 20117 Wren Drive Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8JW
Received 9 Jul 199934 The Laurels Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9DD
Received 26 Jun 2003210 Lowestoft Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 14 Mar 200615 Norwich Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5JW
Received 2 Nov 1998Records 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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