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Billy Blades Cottage, 6 Ash Close, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7NH

3PL/2023/1187/HOUHOU Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwellingApproved
Householder

Approved on 8 February 2024

Council decision: Granted with conditions

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

Proposal

Proposed widening of existing garage door opening, to aid the applicants access and parking arrangements. Demolition of internal garden brick and flint wall. Addition of hot tub to front garden

Received
11 December 2023
Ward
Swaffham
  1. Received11 Dec
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 Feb
  5. Decided8 Feb

Decided in 59 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Billy Blades Cottage, 6 Ash Close, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7NH. Breckland has handled 2,146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 2 weeks longer than Breckland's typical decision time. The site is in the Swaffham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Swaffham. We hold 134 applications in total for the PE37 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
PE37 7NH
Application type
HOU Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwelling
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Swaffham

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2023
Consultation expiry
17 January 2024
Target decision date
23 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Simon Green Billy Blades Cottage 6 Ash Close Swaffham Norfolk PE37 7NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
74 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 December 2023
Advertisement expiry
17 January 2024
Site notice start
13 December 2023
Site notice end
6 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.

  • Conservation area: Swaffham
  • 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, 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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