Back To The Garden At Breck Farm Fakenham Road Thornage Holt Norfolk NR25 7JJ Data via plota.co.uk

PF/26/0390 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Change of use of building from agriculture to covered seating area/hospitality (Use Class E) and further building from covered seating area to retail use (Use Class E), including external alterations to existing buildings and associated cycle parking Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Feb 2026
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Validated
3 Mar 2026
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Consultation
5 Mar 2026
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Approved
19 May 2026

Approved on 19 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents 21

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 5

3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Barn at Breck Farm 20m North East of Breck Farm House, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 3 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 ↗
Glaven Valley conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Public footpath about 13 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
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 3. 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.
Also on the record
National landscape about 497 m away: Norfolk Coast.
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 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

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
NR25 7JJ
Received
17 Feb 2026
Validated
3 Mar 2026
Ward
Stody
Parish
Thornage
Case officer
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Target decision
28 Apr 2026
Decision
Approve
Decision date
19 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
CODE Development Planners Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 77 days from validation, about the council's usual 74 days. Approved, as 91% of changes of use here are.

29%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
75decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by North Norfolk in the last twelve months, from validation. North Norfolk decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14655778
Planning Portal ref
PP-14655778
Consultation
5 Mar 2026
Comments by
9 Apr 2026
Site or press notice
19 Mar 2026
Statutory expiry
28 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No
North Norfolk
Planning Authority Score
5.4/10
Average
#125 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

North Norfolk ranks #175 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North Norfolk decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #43 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #56 of 296
61%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #175 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #183 of 296
85%
Minor dwellings approved
113 decided (1-9 homes)
81%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
85%
Change of use approved
34 decided
906
Total decisions
56 refused in the year to March 2026