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PL/2025/1455/PAAF - PAAF Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed Approved

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Erection of one Agricultural Building The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 6 Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:53

Application progress

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Received

week of 6 Oct 2025

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Validated

9 Oct 2025

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Approved

21 Oct 2025

Approved on 21 Oct 2025 · Delegated decision · Last checked 7 Oct 2026

Documents 9

Site constraints 5

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.

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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

National infrastructure project about 915 m away: Norfolk Boreas

The site is about 915 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Norfolk Vanguard (decided, about 915 m).

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

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, 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: Breckland
Application type: PAAF Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed
Postcode: NR20 3DU
Received: week of 6 Oct 2025
Validated: 9 Oct 2025
Ward: Upper Wensum
Parish: Elsing
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 6 Nov 2025
Decision: Prior Approval not required
Decision date: 21 Oct 2025
Decision level: Delegated decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Foxes Rural Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 12 days from validation, 39 days faster than Breckland's median of 51 for agricultural works. Approved, as 79% of agricultural works here are.

This one12d

Council51d

UK44d

65%decided within 8 weeks

79%approved

108decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Breckland in the last twelve months, from validation. Breckland decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 6 Nov 2025

Historical activity at this location

2 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

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Breckland

Planning Authority Score

8.6/10

Excellent

#14 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Breckland is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #32 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

98% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Breckland decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #216 of 296

98%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #12 of 296

81%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #32 of 296

34%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #84 of 296

54%

Minor dwellings approved

178 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

17 decided (10+ homes)

801

Total decisions

128 refused in the year to March 2026