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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
21,037 approved · 2,888 refused · 1,241 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Morrisons Supermarket Blackbird Close Bradwell GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 8RT
Received 11 Jan 2021Former Ferryside Building and Land 98 High Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 0PH
Received 15 Mar 2016East Nfk Sixth Form College Church Lane Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 7BQ
Received 25 Jul 2000111 Bells Marsh Road Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PN
Received 3 Jul 2003Land west of Woodfarm Lane (Phase 6 of the Bluebell Meadow development) Bradwell Great Yarmouth
Received 16 Jan 202553A Beach Road Scratby GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3AJ
Received 6 Feb 20171 Miriam Close Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5PH
Received 16 Jun 1994East Norfolk Sixth Form College Church Lane Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 7BQ
Received 4 Oct 202141 Primrose Way Bradwell Great Yarmouth Norfolk
Received 28 May 200822 Market Place GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 1LY
Received 18 Dec 2017Hemsby PC Playing Field Waters Lane Hemsby Great Yarmouth
Received 25 Oct 2004Pets At Home (Unit 4) Pasteur Retail Park Thamesfield Way Great Yarmouth NR31 0DH
Received 13 Jul 202210 Seabird Close Caister Great Yarmouth
Received 18 Oct 2001Bridgeford House Bridge Road Gorleston GREAT YARMOUTH NR31 6SY
Received 29 Apr 2019Cornercroft, Back Road Winterton-on-Sea NR29 4BG
Received 9 Apr 2026Holly Lodge Green Lane Caister Great Yarmouth NR30 5EW
Received 10 May 2001Purley Court, Unit E1 Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth Norfolkk NR31 0LZ
Received 2 Feb 202359 South Market Road GREAT YARMOUTH Norfolk NR30 2BT NR30 2BT
Received 3 Jul 2018St Nicholas Priory Middle School (O/S) Market Place Great Yarmouth NR30 1ND
Received 8 Jun 2012Seacroft Holiday Village, Beach Road Hemsby Great Yarmouth NR29 4HR
Received 6 Jul 202626 Garnham Road (land adjacent) Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 6PB
Received 27 Mar 200917 Headington Close Gorleston Great Yarmouth NR31 8DW
Received 22 Dec 199914 North Road Red House Ormesby St Margaret GREAT YARMOUTH NR29 3SA
Received 1 Aug 201919 Bracecamp Close Ormesby St Margaret Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR29 3PR NR29 3PR
Received 16 Feb 2007Records 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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