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Flat At Express Fish Bar Church Plain, Mattishall, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 3QE

3PN/2023/0035/UCFCU Flexible change of use (S2, PT4)Refused
Prior approval

Refused on 6 March 2024

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) for second floor of the property only.; Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA

Received
29 November 2023
Ward
Mattishall
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated11 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Flat At Express Fish Bar Church Plain, Mattishall, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 3QE. Breckland has handled 221 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 8 weeks longer than Breckland's typical decision time. The site is in the Mattishall conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Mattishall. We hold 1,322 applications in total for the NR20 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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 3QE
Application type
FCU Flexible change of use (S2, PT4)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mattishall

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 January 2024
Consultation expiry
6 February 2024
Target decision date
6 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Minghua Huang 16 Brettingham Avenue Cringleford Norwich NR4 6XG

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 February 2024
Site notice end
6 February 2024

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Mattishall
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Yare Broads and MarshesApplies 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 (20)

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, 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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