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5,567 approved · 283 refused · 655 withdrawn.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: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Burnham Market Primary School, Friary's Lane
Received Not publishedCity Academy, Norwich
Received Not publishedAcle High School, South Walsham Road
Received Not publishedAbbey Road, Old Buckenham
Received Not publishedThe Bungalow, Denver Complex, Sluice Road, Denver & Sluice House, Denver Sluice, Sluice Road, Denver
Received Not publishedLand off Hall Road and Bath Hills Road
Received Not publishedWymondham High Academy, Folly Road, Wymondham, NR18 0QT
Received Not publishedGravel Pit ,East Bilney Beetley ,
Received Not publishedFreedom Farm, Cowles Drove, Hockwold, Norfolk
Received Not publishedDisused Lime Quarry ,Hockwold to Weeting Road Hockwold ,
Received Not publishedEnterprise House, Lynn Road
Received Not publishedAnzac Pit ,West Dereham Road West Dereham ,
Received Not published17, 19, 30 and 32 Brewers Court, Norwich
Received Not publishedUnit 2, Little Snoring Airfield, Thursford Road
Received Not publishedHeadteacher's House, Fred Nicholson School, Westfield Road, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 1JB
Received Not publishedLoddon Infant & Nursery School
Received Not publishedCNS School, Eaton Road
Received Not publishedSt Marys RC Primary School, East Anglia Way
Received Not publishedEast Coast Waste Recycling Centre, Harfreys Road, Harfreys Industrial Estate
Received Not publishedSpixworth Road Hainford
Received Not publishedMayton Wood Waste Management Site, Little Hautbois Road
Received Not publishedShelfanger Hall, Hall Lane
Received Not publishedWatton Junior School, Brandon Road
Received Not publishedRawhall Lane, Beetley, Dereham, NR20
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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