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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
20,978 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 1992 to 3 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Marina Leisure and Fitness Centre Marine Parade Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Mar 2004The Mill Back Lane Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 7 Aug 1995Caister Holiday Park Ormesby Road Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5NQ
Received 20 Aug 2009Land South of Beaufort Way (land within the Wheatcroft Farm development) Bradwell
Received 29 Apr 202642 Burgh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8BE
Received 27 Mar 2012Kingfisher Close (Land to north of 146) Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Dec 20132 Chapel Cottages Rollesby Road Fleggburgh GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3AQ
Received 4 Jul 201760 Yarmouth Road Caister on Sea Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Received 26 Oct 200558 Kings Drive Bradwell NR31 8TE
Received 1 Feb 2023Hall Farm Runham Road Stokesby Great Yarmouth
Received 24 Apr 200319 Elmgrove Road Tudor Cottage Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7PP
Received 30 Sept 202173 Colomb Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8BU
Received 4 Mar 200957 Bells Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 23 Sept 200462b Riverside Merridays Repps Great Yarmouth
Received 2 May 2006Land to the north of Decoy Road west of Beck Avenue Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3LZ
Received 17 Oct 2023California Cliffs Caravan Park Rottenstone Lane Scratby Great Yarmouth
Received 15 Aug 1994Edward Worlledge Community School Suffolk Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0ER
Received 7 Jun 2012Northgate Hospital (site adj) GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 27 Feb 2020Club House Warren Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6JT
Received 29 Apr 2021Buttercup Barn Swim Road Glebe Corner Mautby NR29 3ED
Received 7 Mar 2017Abbeville Lodge Acle New Road Great Yarmouth NR30 1SE
Received 25 Sept 20256 Waterworks Road Ormesby St Michael GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3LR
Received 15 Dec 2014Bloodhills Farm Bloodhills Somerton, Great Yarmouth NR29 4DU
Received 14 Jan 2014Destiny 14 Marine Parade Gorleston NR31 6DX
Received 7 Sept 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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