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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Hemsby First School, School Loke, Hemsby
Received Not publishedSwaffham Hamond's High School, Sixth Form Centre, Market Place, Swaffham PE37 7DZ
Received Not publishedBeck Farm Frettenham
Received Not publishedWiggenhall St Germans Pumping Station
Received Not publishedDuchy of Lancaster CE VC Primary School, Hythe Road
Received Not publishedGrimston Church Hill First School, Gayton Road
Received Not publishedCaister Infant Nursery School, Kingston Avenue, Caister on Sea, Norfolk NR30 5ET
Received Not publishedCorner Nurseries & Farm Shop, Fakenham Road, Hoe
Received Not publishedLand Off Rawhall Lane, East Bilney Quarry
Received Not publishedCarbrooke Quarry, Summer Lane, Carbrooke, Thetford, Norfolk IP25 6TJ
Received Not publishedPart OS 100 ,Mill Drove Blackborough End ,
Received Not publishedCostessey Transfer Station, Longwater Business Park, Costessey, Norwich, Norfolk, NR5 0TL
Received Not publishedBittering Quarry, Reed Lane, Bittering, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 2QS
Received Not publishedMangreen Hall Farm
Received Not publishedMiddleton/East Winch Quarry, Land to East of Mill Drove, Mill Drove, Blackborough End, King's Lynn, PE32 1SW
Received Not publishedFramingham Earl High School, Norwich Road
Received Not publishedHeigham Park First School, Recreation Road, Norwich, NR2 3PA
Received Not publishedBeech Croft ,Daffy Green Scarning ,
Received Not publishedCoxford Abbey Quarry, Docking Road, Syderstone, Fakenham, Norfolk
Received Not publishedThorpe St Andrew School, Laundry Lane, Norwich NR7 0XS
Received Not publishedHellesdon Firside Middle School, Middletons Lane
Received Not publishedJ Sainsbury, London Road, Thetford
Received Not publishedGravel Pit, South West of Mill Corner, Carbrooke, Thetford, Norfolk.
Received Not publishedVince's Road / Victoria Road, Diss, Norfolk
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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