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Land South Of Links Road And East Of Lowestoft Road Gorleston-on-Sea Norfolk NR31 6JP

DC/25/4165/CONOther ConsultationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 November 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Consultation - Hybrid planning application seeking: 1. Full planning permission for construction of 442 residential dwellings and associated landscaping, access and highway works, drainage and infrastructure. 2. Outline planning permission for: Up to 70 extra care dwellings (including community facilities and services) (Use Class C3(b)), up to 280sq.m of flexible nonresidential floorspace for use as either Commercial, Business and Service (Class E) or Local Community and Learning (Class F) uses, and associated parking, landscaping, drainage and infrastructure, with details of means of access to the extra care units for approval, and details of layout, scale, appearance, landscaping and means of access to the non-residential floorspace reserved for future determination.

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kirkley And Pakefield
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Nov
  5. Decided21 Nov

Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land South Of Links Road And East Of Lowestoft Road Gorleston-on-Sea Norfolk NR31 6JP. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 5 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 29 applications across Kirkley And Pakefield. We hold 1,055 applications in total for the NR31 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
NR31 6JP
Application type
Other Consultation
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
442
Parish
Lowestoft

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Target decision date
18 November 2025
Permission expires
21 November 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

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.

Source: East Suffolk

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