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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
20,999 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Land North of Car Park At Beach Road Winterton-on-Sea GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4AJ
Received 30 Jun 2022Land West of Woodfarm Lane (Bluebell Meadow) (Phase 5 Wheatcroft Farm) Beccles Road Bradwell
Received 3 May 2022New Road Belton Great Yarmouth (outside The Kings Head P H)
Received 19 May 200021 Grove Road Martham Great Yarmouth
Received 4 Aug 1994Caister Holiday Park Ormesby Road Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 13 Apr 2011Boiler house laundry store Charter Close Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7LD
Received 23 Jul 202048 Warren Road Hopton (Parish of) GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6JT
Received 26 Sept 20174 Cliff Lane Gorleston (Hopton Parish) Great Yarmouth
Received 30 Jul 1997Ex-Sanyo Building Hewett Road Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Bradwell (North) Great Yarmouth
Received 20 Oct 2008Ivy House Beccles Road Fritton Great Yarmouth NR31 9HB
Received 6 Jul 20227 Paddock Close Belton Great Yarmouth NR31 9NT
Received 6 Dec 2001Unit 12, Englands Lane Gorleston NR31 6NE
Received 1 Apr 2026CLS Offshore Ltd Bessemer Way Great Yarmouth Norfolk, NR31 9LN
Received 18 Jun 2007Land west of Woodfarm Lane (Bluebell Meadow) Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Feb 2025North Caister Medical Centre 12 Branford Road Caister GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 5NE
Received 19 Jan 2016Cobholm Caravan Park Tyrrells Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR31 0AU
Received 8 Feb 202123/24 Mill Road Cobholm Great Yarmouth NR31 0AA
Received 5 Oct 2009Holly Lodge Mill Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4ND
Received 26 Jul 199941 Clydesdale Rise Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Feb 200410 Sweetacres Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4NR
Received 7 Dec 2004Conifers (adjacent) Main Road Filby Great Yarmouth NR29 3HN
Received 18 Nov 1999Margaret Chadd House Sidegate Road Hopton GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9AL
Received 27 Jul 201815 Seafield Road North Caister-on-sea GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 5LG
Received 14 Apr 2023Waveney House, Priory Road St Olaves GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 9HQ
Received 20 Feb 2015Records 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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