Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Norfolk County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,569 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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St Williams Way CP School, Williams Loke, St Williams Way, Thorpe St Andrew, NR7 0AJ
Received Not publishedFalcon Junior School, Falcon Road West, Sprowston, Norwich, NR7 8NT
Received Not publishedFrimstone Quarry ,Snettisham
Received Not publishedNorwich Northern Distributor Road
Received Not publishedLingwood Primary & Nursery School, Station Road, Lingwood & Burlingham, Norfolk, NR13 4AZ
Received Not publishedRoudham Heath
Received Not publishedMagdalen House, Magdalen Square, Gorleston
Received Not publishedHeacham Chalk Pit ,
Received Not publishedMayton Wood Closed Landfill Site, Mayton Road, Horstead With Stanninghall, Norwich NR12 7NT
Received Not publishedPensthorpe Hall, Fakenham.
Received Not publishedAldeby Landfill Site
Received Not publishedAttleborough Junior School, Besthorpe, Road, Attleborough, NR17 2NA
Received Not publishedHobart High School, Kittens Lane
Received Not publishedSwaffham CE VC Junior School, Brandon Road, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7EA
Received Not publishedHolt Road, East Beckham, Sheringham, Norfolk
Received Not publishedRoydon County Primary School, Manor Road, Roydon, IP22 5QU
Received Not publishedCrossways Farm
Received Not publishedLand off Hingham Road, Little Ellingham, Norfolk
Received Not publishedLand between the A1270 Broadland Northway near Ringland and the A47 near Honningham
Received Not publishedMarshland St James VC Primary School & Nursery, School Road
Received Not publishedFairhaven CE VA Primary School, School Road
Received Not publishedEast Beckham Quarry, Holt Road, East Beckham, NR26 8TN
Received Not publishedHoward Junior School, Parkway, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4QJ
Received Not publishedInnisfree ,Bawsey
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Norfolk County 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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