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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Model Farm, Costessey.
Received Not publishedNarborough First School, Dennys Walk
Received Not publishedLeet Hill Kirby Cane
Received Not publishedJewsons, Greens Road, Dereham, Norfolk NR20 3TG
Received Not publishedWereham Gravel Pit ,Lynn Road Wereham ,
Received Not publishedCostessey Quarry ,Old Dereham Road Costessey ,Norwich
Received Not publishedPound Plantation
Received Not publishedSouthtown First School, Tamworth Lane
Received Not publishedNorwich Livestock Market ,Hall Road Norwich ,
Received Not publishedLand at former Technical Site RAF Watton, off Norwich Road
Received Not publishedWereham Closed Landfill Site ,Bath Road West Dereham ,
Received Not publishedAntingham & Southrepps Primary School, Lower Street
Received Not publishedThe Nursery, Marsh Road
Received Not publishedCoke Estates Ltd, Holkham Estate
Received Not publishedPoplar Avenue,Saddlebow Industrial Estate
Received Not publishedOld Buckenham County Primary School Abbey Road Old Buckenham NR17 1RH
Received Not publishedNorth Walsham High School, Spenser Avenue
Received Not publishedBunwell Primary School, The Turnpike
Received Not publishedMill Drove, Blackborough End, Kings Lynn PE32 1SW
Received Not publishedCrossways Farm Depot
Received Not publishedMill Road Shipdham
Received Not publishedEarsham Quarry, Land off Hall Road & Pheasants Walk, Earsham, Bungay, NR35 2AB
Received Not publishedNotre Dame CVA High School, Surrey Street
Received Not publishedEdgefield Landfill Site, Norwich Road, Edgefield
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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