Valley Farm Low Road Mettingham Suffolk NR35 1TS Data via plota.co.uk

BA/2026/0043/AGR - Agricultural/Forestry Development Approved
AgriculturalCommercial & major works

Proposal

Steel portal frame building for storage of straw. See statement and drawings for full details. Data via plota.co.uk

Track application Save this application and get an email when its status or decision changes. Alerts nearby Get email alerts for new planning applications near this address.
View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
29 Jan 2026
✓
Validated
17 Feb 2026
✓
Approved
10 Mar 2026

Approved on 10 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 5

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 3b
Not 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 2
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 26 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; National infrastructure project about 1738 m away: Suffolk Water Recycling Transfer and Storage, at pre-application.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £337,000 in May 2003. Detached house, freehold.

23 May 2003£337,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Broads - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Important details

Council
Broads
Application type
Agricultural/Forestry Development
Postcode
NR35 1TS
Received
29 Jan 2026
Validated
17 Feb 2026
Ward
Bungay And Wainford Ward
Parish
Mettingham Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
17 Mar 2026
Decision
Prior Approval Granted
Decision date
10 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Durrant's Building Consultancy

How this decision compares

Decided in 21 days from validation, 12 days faster than Broads's median of 33 for prior approvals. Approved, as 83% of prior approvals here are.

93%decided within 8 weeks
83%approved
26,020decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
17 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2019 Approved
Valley Farm Low Road Mettingham NR35 1TS
Erection of car port.
BA/2019/0015/HOUSEH

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.