Lord Kitchener's Garden Kirkley Cliff Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0BY
Proposal
Proposed siting of a statue of the composer, Benjamin Britten - as a boy - on land at Lord Kitchener's Garden, plus associated minor works.
- Received
- 2 May 2025
- Decided
- 10 July 2025 · Application Permitted
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 5
- Council
- East Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Kirkley And Pakefield
- ReceivedSubmitted2 May
- ValidatedValidated20 May
- Consult.Consultation27 Jun
- TargetTarget Date15 Jul
- DecidedDecided10 Jul
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
This is a full planning application at Lord Kitchener's Garden Kirkley Cliff Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0BY. East Suffolk has handled 5,489 applications of this type and approves 90% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than East Suffolk's median. The site is in the South Lowestoft and Kirkley conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,642 applications in total for the NR33 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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