Twelve Acre Farm Moor Drove (east) Hockwold cum Wilton THETFORD Norfolk IP26 4JU Data via plota.co.uk

Refused 25/01933/F
Council
Kings Lynn 8.4/10
Date received
21 Nov 2025
Date validated
5 Dec 2025
Postcode
IP26 4JU

Description

RETROSPECTIVE/RETENTION: Proposed permanent retention of mobile home and ancillary mobile unit housing customer w.c.s, office and tack room Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 4

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.
Public byway open to all traffic about 20 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.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
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 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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Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2022 Approved
Change of use of the ground floor of an agricultural building to Class E (now Class R of…
22/01301/PT3CLR
2022 Approved
Change of use of the ground floor of an agricultural building to Class E (now Class R of…
22/01301/PT3CLR
2022 Refused
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing dwelling
22/01689/LDE
2022 Refused
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing dwelling
22/01689/LDE
2021 Refused
Retrospective change of use of first floor agricultural building to residential dwelling.
21/01127/F
2021 Refused
Retrospective change of use of first floor agricultural building to residential dwelling.
21/01127/F
2021 Approved
Retrospective Change of use of land for the siting of 8 storage containers
21/00434/F
2021 Approved
Retrospective Change of use of land for the siting of 8 storage containers
21/00434/F
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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for householder decisions
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings