Maltings Meadow Sports Ground Pirnhow Street Ditchingham Norfolk NR35 2RU Data via plota.co.uk

BA/2026/0116/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Creation of a 3G Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) with perimeter fencing, hardstanding areas, storage container, floodlights, access footpath, landscaping bund and overflow Grasscrete parking area. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:58

Application progress

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Received

23 Apr 2026

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Consultation

31 Jul 2026

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Committee

7 Aug 2026

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Approved

10 Aug 2026

Approved on 10 Aug 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 10 Aug 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Broads Planning Committee on 7 Aug 2026.

Approved by 5 votes to 1

As officers recommended.

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

For5

Against1

Abstained1

Officers found no consultee objections and recommended approval, judging that public benefits outweighed localised harm from noise and lighting.
A neighbour said the mitigations would not stop increased noise and light intrusion, while the agent said the scheme would benefit the club and community.
Members voted five to one, with one abstention, to approve the application subject to amended hours and other conditions.

Read how the committee decided The officers' assessment, the objections, the debate and the conditions attached.

Source: Plota analysis of Broads's committee minutes of 7 Aug 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 5

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 ↗

The Broads National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

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

Priority habitat about 7 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 25 September 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 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

Council: Broads
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: NR35 2RU
Received: 23 Apr 2026
Validated: 23 Apr 2026
Ward: Ditchingham And Earsham Ward
Parish: Ditchingham Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Jun 2026
Decision: Approve Subject to Conditions
Decision date: 10 Aug 2026
Decision level: Committee Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Surfacing Standards Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 109 days from validation, 53 days slower than Broads's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 88% of full applications here are.

This one109d

Council56d

UK56d

56%decided within 8 weeks

88%approved

17%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Broads in the last twelve months, from validation. Broads decision record →