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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Harfreys Road, Harfreys Industrial Estate
Received Not publishedSouth of Hillcrest Road
Received Not publishedNorfolk Pet Crematorium ,Shortthorn Road Felthorpe ,Norwich
Received Not publishedDuckshole Farm, Edgefield Heath
Received Not publishedMill Drove Blackborough End
Received Not publishedLand Adjoining Longham Heath and Spreadoak Plantation, Bittering Quarry, Reed Lane, Bittering, Dereham
Received Not publishedAcle Fire Station, 1 Phoenix Close, Acle, Norwich, Norfolk NR13 3QS
Received Not publishedLand Adjoining Factory, Two Mile Bottom
Received Not publishedChurchman House, 71 Bethel Street, Norwich
Received Not publishedCostessey Transfer Station, Longwater Business Park
Received Not publishedHaddiscoe Quarry ,Haddiscoe
Received Not publishedDuckshole Farm, Hunworth Road
Received Not publishedIndustrial Site, Hall Lane, Off Greens Road
Received Not publishedWest Bilney Hall, Common Road, West Bilney
Received Not publishedMethwold High School, Stoke Road, Methwold, IP26 4PE
Received Not publishedTacolneston Primary School, Norwich Road
Received Not publishedBishops CE VA Primary School, Canterbury Way, Thetford
Received Not publishedCarrow House, Costume & Textiles Collection, Kiing Street, Norwich
Received Not publishedEnterprise Way ,Hardwick Narrows Ind.Est. King's Lynn ,Norfolk
Received Not publishedCliff Park First School, Orde Avenue, Gorleston on Sea
Received Not publishedLand at Spring Farm, Fir Covert Road, Felthorpe Norwich NR10 4DT
Received Not publishedAdj Whinhill Plantation ,West Bilney
Received Not publishedMethwold High School, Stoke Road
Received Not publishedMKM, Hamburg Way, North Lynn Industrial Estate, Kings Lynn, PE30 2ND
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
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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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