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.
5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Land off Hall Rd/Bath Hills Road, Earsham, Bungay, Suffolk, NR35 2AE
Received Not publishedNorwich Northern Distributor Road
Received Not publishedSwaffham Infant School, White Cross Road
Received Not publishedLand adjoining Thetford Power Station, Two Mile Bottom, Mundford Road
Received Not publishedCrimplesham Quarry (Northern Site), Main Road, Downham Market
Received Not publishedHeartsease First School, Rider Haggard Road, Norwich, NR7 9UE
Received Not publishedHockering VC Primary School, The Street, Hockering, NR20 3HN
Received Not publishedUnit 6, Oldmeadow Road, Hardwick Industrial Estate
Received Not publishedStanninghall Farm, Stanninghall Road, Horstead with Stanninghall, Norwich NR12 7LX
Received Not publishedBittering Quarry ,Bittering
Received Not publishedSt Augustines Gyratory, junction of Magpie Road & Esdelle Street
Received Not publishedGarboldisham VC Primary School, Church Lane
Received Not publishedLand adj. Brisbane House ,Cargate Green Upton ,
Received Not publishedCarquip UK, Barroway Drove
Received Not publishedWells Primary & Nursery School, Polka Road, Wells-Next-the-Sea, NR23 1JQ
Received Not publishedVeolia ES (UK) Ltd, Ernest Gage Avenue, Longwater Industrial Estate, Costessey, Norwich, NR5 0TL
Received Not publishedLand to North of Setch Road, Setch Road, Middleton, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Received Not publishedKing Edward V11 High School, Gaywood Road, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 2QB
Received Not publishedWymondham High School, Folly Road, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0QT
Received Not publishedAstley Primary School, Fakenham Road, Briston, Norfolk NR24 2HH
Received Not publishedHolt Quarry, Hunworth Road, Holt, NR25 6SR
Received Not publishedLand North of Honeypots Plantation, Shropham Quarry
Received Not publishedWensum Lodge, King Street, Norwich
Received Not publishedBeetley Quarry
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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Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

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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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