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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
20,963 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site 13 The Esplanade Marine Parade Great Yarmouth (beach opposite Empire)
Received 18 Apr 2002Land at rear of 95 Yarmouth Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3QF NR29 3QF
Received 23 Nov 20066 Albert Square Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 15 Dec 2006Land at Pit Road (adj.Highlands) Pit Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 1 May 2002Ormesby Middle School North Road Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth
Received 1 Mar 200212-17 Quay Road Neptunes Palace Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PJ
Received 24 Mar 2011R T H Lubbers, Capstan Building Boundary Road Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0LW
Received 11 Sept 201221 Devonshire Road (Flat 1) Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Mar 1998154 Repps Road Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4QZ
Received 22 Aug 2014191 Burgh Road Bradwell NR31 9ER
Received 23 Jan 202542 Suffolk Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 0PZ
Received 8 Nov 2022York Road Drill Hall (Adjacent) GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 2LZ
Received 12 Nov 2015Site off Main Road Filby NR29 3HN
Received 28 Apr 202525 Prince of Wales Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5UA
Received 13 Sept 2010Brentwood St Johns Road Belton Belton With Browston NR31 9JT
Received 29 Feb 202422 Ormesby Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5LA
Received 6 May 2004Rivendell Mill Lane Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 8 Aug 200523A South Quay GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2RG
Received 14 Apr 2015No: 2 Rosedale Chalets Rear of Croft Road Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 30 Mar 200719a George Street Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Nov 1994Chestnut House Main Road Filby Great Yarmouth
Received 5 Dec 1996Berrys Station Road North Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NF
Received 19 Jun 2003166 Church Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6NN
Received 16 Aug 2018Teasel Cottage (adj) Main Road Clippesby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3BQ
Received 3 Feb 2022Records 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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