Middleton Castle Station Road Tower End Middleton KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE32 1EE Data via plota.co.uk

25/01729/LDE - Lawful Use Certificate - Existing Use Refused

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate: Retention of existing close boarded timber fencing panels to a height of 2.025m behind unused site entrance. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
20 Oct 2025
✗
Refused
11 Dec 2025
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 11 Dec 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 10 Oct 2026

Site constraints 6

5 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Cottage, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 5 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
In flood zones plus climate change
Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From the sea. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.
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), 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.
Scheduled monument about 79 m away: Moated site and manorial earthworks at Middleton Castle
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Priority habitat about 25 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 2 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, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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
Kings Lynn
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate - Existing Use
Postcode
PE32 1EE
Received
20 Oct 2025
Validated
20 Oct 2025
Ward
West Winch
Parish
Middleton
Case officer
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Target decision
15 Dec 2025
Decision
Not Lawful
Decision date
11 Dec 2025
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Arcadia Architectural

How this decision compares

Decided in 52 days from validation, about the council's usual 54 days. Refused, as 19% of lawful development certificates here are.

82%decided within 8 weeks
81%approved
79decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided by Kings Lynn in the last twelve months, from validation. Kings Lynn decision record →

Public comments

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Last counted 10 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14414144
Planning Portal ref
PP-14414144
Statutory expiry
15 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No
Kings Lynn
Planning Authority Score
8.4/10
Excellent
#17 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Kings Lynn is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #20 out of 296. Only 27% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Kings Lynn decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #133 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #82 of 296
87%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #20 of 296
27%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #41 of 296
76%
Minor dwellings approved
261 decided (1-9 homes)
85%
Major dwellings approved
26 decided (10+ homes)
89%
Change of use approved
44 decided
1,216
Total decisions
131 refused in the year to March 2026