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Church Farm Docking Road Fring KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 6SE

24/00920/AGAgricultural Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 June 2024

Council decision: AG Prior Notification - NOT REQDDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Agricultural Prior Notification: The new building will comprise 1 x standard 20ft shipping container and 1 x standard 10ft shipping container. The containers are both modular units containing a biomass boiler system. Each container will be clad externally in locally sourced Larch, with all doors and external walls clad in the rough sawn timber.

Received
16 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Heacham
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.14 Jun
  4. Target13 Jun
  5. Decided10 Jun

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Church Farm Docking Road Fring KINGS LYNN Norfolk PE31 6SE. Kings Lynn has handled 937 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Kings Lynn's typical decision time. The site is in the Fring conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Heacham. We hold 1,188 applications in total for the PE31 postcode area.

73% of outline applications at King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PE31 6SE
Application type
Agricultural Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fring (VACANT)

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2024
Consultation expiry
14 June 2024
Consultation start
23 May 2024
Consultation end
14 June 2024
Last date for comments
14 June 2024
Target decision date
13 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Fergus Bootman Bankside 300 Broadland Business Park Norwich NR7 0LB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13065844
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Fring Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.

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