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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
21,012 approved · 2,884 refused · 1,238 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
34 Blackwall Reach Gorleston NR31 6RU
Received 11 Jun 2025111 Caister Road Great Yarmouth NR30 4DL
Received 20 Oct 202363 Avondale Road Jennis Lodge Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6DJ
Received 8 Mar 2017Old Cemetery Gatehouse corner of Magdalen Way and Crab Lane Gorleston NR31 8LT
Received 26 Sept 2025Unit 4 Woodfarm Lane Bradwell NR31 9YN
Received 13 Oct 20235 Links Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Received 12 Feb 2001272 Southtown Road Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Oct 19972 Foster Close Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth NR29 3PP
Received 6 May 2005Land to the rear of 46-52 Burgh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8BE NR31 8BE
Received 28 Nov 2006Te-Aroha Albert Square Great Yarmouth NR30 3JH
Received 16 Mar 201114 Southtown Road The Rocket Public House Great Yarmouth
Received 11 Feb 1997Ridge Back House Heath Road St Olaves Great Yarmouth NR31 9HL
Received 18 Feb 200927 Youell Avenue Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6HT
Received 22 Oct 201936 Four Acres Estate Hemsby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 4JB
Received 6 Jul 2018158 Burgh Road (land to rear of) Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8AX
Received 26 Sept 201816 Theatre Plain (Ladbrokes) Great Yarmouth
Received 10 Apr 1997Cable Landing Station Low Road Winterton Great Yarmouth NR29 4BJ
Received 25 Jun 1999Back Road (land off) West Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 26 Jul 200697 Lords Lane Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8PA
Received 14 Mar 20177, 8 and 9 Marine Parade (Land r/o) Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk
Received 29 May 2015Burgh Hall Park Tower Road Burgh St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3DW
Received 30 Sept 2021Co-op Store Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7AA
Received 1 Nov 2004Salmon Road Selwood Ltd GREAT YARMOUTH NR30 3QS
Received 13 Aug 2018Woodside Farm Common Lane Thurne Great Yarmouth
Received 21 Dec 2000Records 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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