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Former East Suffolk Housing Department Rotterdam Road Depot Rotterdam Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 2EX

DC/25/3750/DEMPrior Notification DemolitionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 November 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification Demolition - Single storey obsolete and vacant office block and workshop of brick construction - approximate GIA = 1124m2. Building is obsolete and additional site car parking is required for the implementation of the better recycling scheme. Demolition will be down to ground level and a hardstanding area to go over the existing footprint to be used as car parking

Received
1 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Harbour And Normanston
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated13 Oct
  3. Consult.7 Nov
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided10 Nov

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Former East Suffolk Housing Department Rotterdam Road Depot Rotterdam Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 2EX. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

87% of outline 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 2EX
Application type
Prior Notification Demolition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lowestoft

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 October 2025
Last date for comments
7 November 2025
Target decision date
10 November 2025
Permission expires
10 November 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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

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.

Source: East Suffolk

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