Horse Fen Pumping Station Fritton Lane Great Yarmouth NR29 5PT Data via plota.co.uk

BA/2026/0268/CPLUD - Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev Pending

Proposal

Replacement Pumping Station and associated drainage works including the construction of temporary and permanent access routes, compound areas, drainage channel, culverts and crossings, utility diversions and improvements, sheet piling and reinforced concrete works, erection of temporary and permanent and temporary fencing, installation and commissioning of plant and equipment . The works constitute development by a drainage body (Broads (2006) Internal Drainage Board) to improve and repair land drainage works (Brograve Pumping Station). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 4 Nov 2026, 01:15

Application progress

✓

Received

30 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 25 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 21 Nov 2026, from recent lawful development certificates across the UK.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗

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) agrees.

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 Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

National park about 41 m away: The Broads

Outside the park; its setting can still be raised.

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

Also on the record

National nature reserve about 478 m away: Ludham & Potter Heigham Marshes; SSSI about 478 m away: Ludham - Potter Heigham Marshes SSSI.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 1 November 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: Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Postcode: NR29 5PT
Received: 30 Sept 2026
Validated: 30 Sept 2026
Ward: St Benet Ward
Parish: Ludham Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 25 Nov 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Water Management Alliance

Decision outlook

Day 37 of the 56-day target. Councils usually decide lawful development certificates by day 52.

prediction

Day 3719 days to the 56-day target

79%decided within 8 weeks

83%approved

45,241decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent lawful development certificates in Broads to go on. Broads decision record →