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Murrell Cottage Town Street, Swanton Morley, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 4PB

3PL/2023/0541/HOUHOU Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwellingApproved
Householder

Approved on 14 July 2023

Council decision: Granted with conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of detached garage to Garden Room / additional sleeping accommodation for occasional use.

Received
25 May 2023
Ward
Lincoln
  1. Received25 May
  2. Validated25 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Jul
  5. Decided14 Jul

Decided in 50 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Murrell Cottage Town Street, Swanton Morley, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 4PB. Breckland has handled 2,146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 8 days longer than Breckland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Lincoln. We hold 1,322 applications in total for the NR20 postcode area.

91% of full 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
NR20 4PB
Application type
HOU Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swanton Morley

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 May 2023
Target decision date
20 July 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Beeston Architectural Services 5 East View Crescent Whissonsett Norfolk NR20 5TD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Wensum SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (21)

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, 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

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© 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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