Lords Common Wood Bircham Road Houghton Estate Norfolk Data via plota.co.uk
Approved
25/02032/FM
Description
Proposed mixed-use forestry and sustainable eco-retreat comprising tourist cabin accommodation with associated facilities, landscaping, parking and access. Data via plota.co.uk
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Site constraints 7
24 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: 1 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY, about 16 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 9 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.
Show all 24 with distances
- 16 m1 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 17 m33 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 20 m1, 2 and 3, the StreetGrade II
- 21 m32 and 33, the StreetGrade II
- 24 mHoughton Hall South Lodges With Gates, Gate Piers and Walls AttachedGrade II*
- 24 m3 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 28 mSouth Lodge,34 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 28 mSouth Lodge,35 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 50 m4 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 51 m30 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 55 m29 and 30, the StreetGrade II
- 56 m4 and 5, the StreetGrade II
- 83 m6 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 84 m28 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 88 m7 The Street,Houghton,Norfolk,PE31 6TY,
- 92 m27 and 28, the StreetGrade II
- 93 m6, 7, 8 and 9, the StreetGrade II
- 98 m9 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 124 m26 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 125 m10 The Street,Houghton,King's Lynn,Norfolk,PE31 6TY
- 129 m10 and 11, the StreetGrade II
- 129 m25 and 26, the StreetGrade II
- 139 mTelephone Kiosk,The Street,Houghton,Norfolk,,
- 148 mK6 Telephone KioskGrade II
Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Wensum SAC
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Registered park or garden: Houghton Hall
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
NEW HOUGHTON Conservation Area 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.
Article 4 direction
New Houghton Conservation Area. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
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
Priority habitat about 32 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site
Checked on 17 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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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%).
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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