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5,569 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Carrow House, King Street, Norwich
Received Not publishedFalcon Road Middle School, Falcon Road West, Sprowston
Received Not publishedThe Paddocks, School Road, Beetley
Received Not publishedLand adjacent Chapel Break Road, Bowthorpe, Norwich
Received Not publishedAtlas Works, Norwich Road, Lenwade, Norwich, Norfolk NR9 5AW
Received Not publishedLand off Low Road, Drayton, Norwich, NR8 6RR
Received Not publishedLarkshall Mill, East Wretham
Received Not publishedSnetterton Landfill, Harling Road, Snetterton
Received Not publishedReepham High School, Whitwell Road, Reepham, NR10 4JT
Received Not publishedBlackborough End, East Winch Road
Received Not publishedGreat Yarmouth Library, Tolhouse Street
Received Not publishedSetch Rd ,Middleton
Received Not publishedNorfolk Rural Life Museum, Beech House, Gressenhall, NR20 4DR
Received Not publishedLand at West Caister ,
Received Not publishedShipdham Airfield Industrial Estate, Shipdham, Thetford.
Received Not publishedNorwich Western Link
Received Not publishedHarleston Canon Pickering Junior School, School Lane
Received Not publishedYew Tree Farm
Received Not publishedLarkshall Mill, Viridor MRF, Thetford Road, East Wretham
Received Not publishedSidestrand Hall School, Cromer Road , Sidestrand, Norfolk, NR27 0NH
Received Not publishedNorthern Extension to Longdell Hills Quarry (Rampton's Land)
Received Not publishedBroomsthorpe Road ,Helhoughton
Received Not publishedKing Edward Vii High School, Gaywood Road, King's Lynn, PE30 2QB
Received Not publishedTanner House, Tanner Street, Thetford, IP24 2BQ
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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