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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
20,976 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Market Place Great Yarmouth
Received 29 Jul 1994ASCo UK Ltd South Denes Road Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Jul 199820 Old Church Road Hopton Great Yarmouth NR31 9BZ
Received 21 Apr 2004Land off Dock Tavern Lane Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6PX
Received 30 Apr 2019Sandy Lane (land off) Belton Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Jun 2005Digital Phone Co Ltd 16 Southgates Road Great Yarmouth NR30 3LJ
Received 25 May 2012139 High Street Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6RA
Received 15 Jul 202512 Ranworth Close Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9JX
Received 18 Apr 2024The Beech Trees (land at rear of) North Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Oct 2007St Mary the Virgin 64 Black Street Martham GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4PR
Received 31 Jan 202265 Mallard Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth NR31 8LX
Received 21 Sept 201280 North Quay Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1JP NR30 1JP
Received 19 Mar 200725 Victoria Road Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Oct 19998a/8b Hamilton Road Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Dec 199922 St Nicholas Drive Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5QS
Received 27 Aug 200849 Westerley Way Caister-on-Sea Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 5AJ
Received 19 Jan 2009George Street/Broad Row Great Yarmouth
Received 26 May 2004Garage site Sussex Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PF
Received 28 Aug 2008Rollesby Road/Mill Lane (Development Site) Fleggburgh Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Aug 20117 New Court New Road Fritton Great Yarmouth
Received 14 Mar 200013 Yarmouth Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 6 Feb 1996Alphabet Nursery High Street Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5EH
Received 24 Apr 20063 White Street Martham Great Yarmouth Nr29 4PG NR29 4PG
Received 15 Dec 20081 Norwich Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Mar 2001Records 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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