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Cottage, Whithers Farm Gateley Road, Gateley, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 5EF

3PL/2023/1011/HOUHOU Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwellingApproved
Householder

Approved on 1 December 2023

Council decision: Granted with conditions

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

Proposal

Replacement garage (Re Positioned footprint to consented garage 3PL/2023/0560/HOU)

Received
17 October 2023
Ward
Upper Wensum
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 39 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Cottage, Whithers Farm Gateley Road, Gateley, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 5EF. Breckland has handled 2,146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 3 days longer than Breckland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Upper Wensum. 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 5EF
Application type
HOU Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Gateley

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 October 2023
Consultation expiry
29 November 2023
Target decision date
18 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Humphrey Kelsey Withers Farm Gateley Road Gateley Norfolk NR20 5EF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 November 2023
Site notice end
29 November 2023

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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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