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Pump Station Watton Road, Ashill, Thetford, Norfolk, IP25 7AQ

3BT/2024/0001/BTPAEC Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed development by or on behalf of an electronic communications code operator for the purposes of the operators electronic communications network in, on or under land controlled by that operator or in accordance with the electronic communication codeApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 February 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval given

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior approval for Arqiva Smart Metering 1No. Omni at 13.83m mean mounted on proposed 12m streetworks pole. Proposed Arqiva Smart Metering 1No. GPS Antenna at 12.4m mean mounted on proposed streetworks pole. Proposed Arqiva Smart Metering 1No. 3G Omni Antenna at 3.8m mean mounted on proposed streetworks pole and proposed Arqiva Smart Metering Equipment enclosur . (The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 16, Class A)

Received
5 January 2024
Ward
Ashill
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Feb
  5. Decided2 Feb

Decided in 28 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Pump Station Watton Road, Ashill, Thetford, Norfolk, IP25 7AQ. Breckland has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 2 weeks quicker than Breckland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Ashill. We hold 196 applications in total for the IP25 postcode area.

83% of outline applications at Breckland District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IP25 7AQ
Application type
PAEC Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed development by or on behalf of an electronic communications code operator for the purposes of the operators electronic communications network in, on or under land controlled by that operator or in accordance with the electronic communication code
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ashill

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2024
Consultation expiry
31 January 2024
Target decision date
29 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
WHP Telecoms Limited 1a Station Court Station Road Guiseley Leeds LS20 8EY

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 January 2024
Site notice end
31 January 2024

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Breckland

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