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Lowestoft Outer Harbour Lowestoft Suffolk

DC/19/2753/RG3Deemed Council DevelopmentApproved

Approved on 6 May 2020

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of tidal flood walls in Lowestoft Outer Harbour, to provide a 1 in 200 (0.5%) AEP standard of protection against direct tidal flooding to residential and commercial areas of Lowestoft.

Received
10 July 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
1
Ward
Harbour And Normanston
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.25 Mar
  4. Target8 Oct
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 301 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Lowestoft Outer Harbour Lowestoft Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 11,797 applications of this type. This one was decided in 301 days, 35 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Harbour And Normanston.

Application details

Application type
Deemed Council Development
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Lowestoft

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2019
Consultation expiry
25 March 2020
Consultation start
4 March 2020
Consultation end
25 March 2020
Neighbour consultation end
9 August 2019
Last date for comments
25 March 2020
Target decision date
8 October 2019
Committee meeting
14 January 2020
Permission expires
6 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Jacobs
Agent address
2 Colmore Square Queensway 38 Colmore Circus Birmingham B4 6BN

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 July 2019
Advertisement expiry
16 August 2019
Site notice start
22 July 2019
Site notice end
12 August 2019

Additional information

Documents
126
Constraints
219

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: South LowestoftPart of the site

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 (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

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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.

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  3. 2021
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  4. 2021
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  5. 2021
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  6. 2020
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    Discharge of Condition Nos. 5, 6, 10 and 13 of DC/19/2753/RG3

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  7. 2020
    3 Sep

    Non Material Amendment - DC/19/2753/RG3

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  8. 2019
    10 Jul

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