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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pump Lane, Caister
Received Not publishedCity of Norwich School, Eaton Road
Received Not publishedGrange Farm, Horstead
Received Not publishedWhite Woman Lane Junior School, White Woman Lane, Sprowston
Received Not publishedHainford VC First School, Newton Road, Hainford, Norwich NR10 3BQ
Received Not publishedVanguard Road ,Gapton Hall Ind. Estate Bradwell ,
Received Not publishedHorstead Quarry, Buxton Road, Coltishall, Norfolk
Received Not publishedMethwold Farm, Methwold to proposed compound site north of Mundford Road (2.8 kilometre pipeline)
Received Not publishedClover Hill Infant School, Rawley Road
Received Not publishedMulbarton Infant & Junior School, The Common, Mulbarton, NR14 8JG
Received Not publishedAdjoining Refuse Pulveriser , Plant Pump Lane ,West Caister
Received Not publishedLand Off Field Lane ,North Walsham Norfolk ,
Received Not publishedHolt Library, 9 Church Street, Holt, NR25 6BB
Received Not publishedAdys Skips, Sandy Lane, East Tuddenham
Received Not publishedStaff House, Huntingfield, 226 Dereham Road, Costessey
Received Not publishedSisland Sewage Treatment Works, Bergh Apton Road
Received Not publishedHelhoughton Road
Received Not publishedThetford Bus Interchange, St. Nicholas Street, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 1BJ
Received Not publishedLand to the east of West Winch Village, King's Lynn
Received Not publishedBreydon Middle School, Moorland Way & Waveney First School, Bell Lane
Received Not publishedEarsham Quarry Plant Site, Off Bath Hills Road, Earsham, Bungay, NR35 2AE
Received Not publishedNorthfields First School, Lovelace Road, Norwich, NR4 7DS
Received Not publishedSheringham Primary School, Cooper Road
Received Not publishedHall Farm ,Bradwell
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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