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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Thetford Petrol Filling Station, London Road
Received Not publishedTarmac Quarry ,Bittering
Received Not published8 Maurice Gaymer Road, Gaymers Industrial Estate
Received Not publishedSPC Atlas Works, Norwich Road, Lenwade
Received Not publishedKing's Lynn Academy, Queen Mary Road, Gaywood, King's Lynn, PE30 4QG
Received Not publishedBeetley Quarry
Received Not publishedLand off Church Lane, Ashwicken, PE32 1LN
Received Not publishedScole Primary School, Norwich Road, Scole, Diss
Received Not publishedGravel Pit ,Adjacent A1065
Received Not publishedPentney Quarry, Abbey Farm Pentney
Received Not publishedLyng Farm, Thornham
Received Not publishedLand at Oak Field, Watlington Road, Nr Tottenhill Row, Nr Watlington, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
Received Not publishedLand South of 105/107 The Street, Bridgham, NR16 2RU
Received Not publishedTop Farm, Greenway, North Barsham
Received Not publishedWhitlingham Sewage Treatment Works, Kirby Bedon Road
Received Not publishedJohn Grant School, St George's Drive, Caister on Sea, Great Yarmouth NR30 5QW
Received Not publishedNorwich Road Caister-on-sea
Received Not publishedWest Raynham VC Primary School,
Received Not publishedReymerston Quarry, Hingham Road, Reymerston
Received Not publishedJohn Grant School, St Georges Drive
Received Not publishedOff Hall Road ,Norwich
Received Not publishedLangor Bridge Quarry ,Little Ryburgh Fakenham ,Norfolk
Received Not publishedAshleigh Infant School, Sheffield Road, Wymondham, NR18 0HL
Received Not publishedWiggenhall St Germans Primary School, School Lane
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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