1 Gapton Hall Road Great Yarmouth NR31 0NL Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Installation of new and replacement plant and machinery to rooftop; External alterations including: replacement of existing roof over entrance with a new flat roof; installation of canopy to front/side; new doors and shopfront; new lighting; installation of timber screen cladding; new signage framework to roof. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
28 May 2026
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Validated
24 Jun 2026
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Approved
17 Sept 2026

Approved on 17 Sept 2026 · Last checked 17 Sept 2026

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Article 4 direction
Article 4 Direction - Houses in Multiple Occupation Great Yarmouth. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
National infrastructure project about 61 m away: Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing
The site is about 61 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
National park about 375 m away: The Broads; Inside the Great Yarmouth built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Postcode
NR31 0NL
Received
28 May 2026
Validated
24 Jun 2026
Parish
GY Southtown/Cobhm
Case officer
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Target decision
18 Sept 2026
Decision
APPROVE Conditions/Reasons
Decision date
17 Sept 2026
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 85 days from validation, 28 days slower than Great Yarmouth's median of 57 for extensions. Approved, as 87% of extensions here are.

49%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
120decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Great Yarmouth in the last twelve months, from validation. Great Yarmouth decision record →

Great Yarmouth
Planning Authority Score
4.4/10
Below average
#181 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Great Yarmouth ranks #125 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Great Yarmouth decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #171 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #154 of 296
69%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #125 of 296
49%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #221 of 296
69%
Minor dwellings approved
51 decided (1-9 homes)
78%
Major dwellings approved
9 decided (10+ homes)
89%
Change of use approved
18 decided
366
Total decisions
47 refused in the year to March 2026