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39 Kirkley Cliff Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0DB

DC/24/0082/CLELawful Development Certificate(Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 5 March 2024

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Use (Existing) - To establish the lawfulness of the use of garage building as an independent residential unit [use class C3 (Dwellinghouses)] for a continuous period in excess of four years.

Received
10 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Kirkley And Pakefield
  1. Received10 Jan
  2. Validated17 Jan
  3. Consult.9 Feb
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 39 Kirkley Cliff Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0DB. East Suffolk has handled 512 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in the South Lowestoft and Kirkley conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Kirkley And Pakefield. We hold 1,660 applications in total for the NR33 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
NR33 0DB
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate(Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lowestoft

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 January 2024
Last date for comments
9 February 2024
Target decision date
13 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: South Lowestoft
  • 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 (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: East Suffolk

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