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The Lodge Rotterdam Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 2EZ

DC/16/0136/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 21 April 2016

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use from B1 Office to residential dwelling, construction of a single storey side extension and alterations to door and windows

Received
14 January 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Harbour And Normanston
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated1 Mar
  3. Consult.28 Mar
  4. Target25 Apr
  5. Decided21 Apr

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Lodge Rotterdam Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 2EZ. East Suffolk has handled 512 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Harbour And Normanston. We hold 932 applications in total for the NR32 postcode area.

92% of amendment applications at East Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NR32 2EZ
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lowestoft

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 March 2016
Consultation expiry
30 March 2016
Consultation start
7 March 2016
Consultation end
28 March 2016
Neighbour consultation end
28 March 2016
Last date for comments
30 March 2016
Target decision date
25 April 2016
Decision issued
22 April 2016
Permission expires
22 April 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Purple Property
Agent address
The Union Building 51-59 Rose Lane Norwich Norfolk NR1 1BY

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 March 2016
Site notice end
30 March 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04757250
Documents
11
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2016
    25 Aug

    Discharge of Condition numbers 4, 5 and 6 on application DC/16/0136/COU

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDC/16/3588/DRC
  2. 2016
    24 May

    Non Material Amendment of DC/16/0136/COU

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentDC/16/2154/AME
  3. 2016
    14 Jan

    Change of Use from B1 Office to residential dwelling, construction of a single storey side extension and…

    This applicationApprovedAmendmentDC/16/0136/COU

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