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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Heigham Park First School, Recreation Road
Received Not publishedCity of Norwich School, Eaton Road
Received Not publishedNorwich Northern Distributor Road.
Received Not publishedHornsea Project Three Wind Farm
Received Not publishedHills End Farm, Wroo Road, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17 1AR
Received Not publishedAldeby Landfill Site, Oaklands Gravel Pit, Aldeby, Beccles, Norfolk, NR34 0BL
Received Not publishedLand at Sheringham High & Primary Schools, Holt Road, Sheringham
Received Not publishedLand at Bergh Apton
Received Not publishedHighway Verge and Land off Cley Road, close to the junction with Lords Lane
Received Not publishedUnit 6, Dunkirk Industrial Estate, Aylsham, Norwich
Received Not publishedHingham County Primary School, Hardingham Street
Received Not publishedQueens's Hills Primary School, Fieldfare Way
Received Not publishedLand at Cross Bank Road, Kings Lynn, PE30 2HD
Received Not publishedEarlham High School, Earlham Road
Received Not publishedPunch Farm Quarry,Beeston
Received Not publishedHillcrest Primary School, Hillcrest
Received Not publishedBittering Quarry, Reed Lane, Bittering, Dereham, Norfolk NR19 2QS
Received Not publishedLand to rear of Fire Station, Norwich, Road, Thetford
Received Not publishedStalham Community First School, Brumstead Road
Received Not publishedLand at Kimberley
Received Not publishedCastle Acre Quarry, Newton by Castle Acre, Breckland PE32 2BY
Received Not publishedCrimplesham Quarry, Main Road, Crimplesham
Received Not publishedSwaffham Library, The Pightle
Received Not publishedAttleborough C Junior School, Besthorpe Road, Attleborough, NR17 2NA
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 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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