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Land SE of Townsend House Walnut Road Walpole St Peter Norfolk

25/00467/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 12 May 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

PERMISSION IN PRINCIPAL FOR: Residential development of up to 5 dwellings.

Received
11 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
17
Ward
Walsoken, West Walton And Walpole
  1. Received11 Mar
  2. Validated2 Apr
  3. Consult.28 Apr
  4. Target7 May
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land SE of Townsend House Walnut Road Walpole St Peter Norfolk. Kings Lynn has handled 937 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Kings Lynn's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Walsoken, West Walton And Walpole.

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

Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Walpole

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 April 2025
Consultation expiry
30 April 2025
Consultation start
7 April 2025
Consultation end
28 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
7 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
23 April 2025
Last date for comments
8 May 2025
Target decision date
7 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Liam Lunn-Towler 2 Chapel Road Wisbech PE13 1RG

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 April 2025
Site notice end
30 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
17

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
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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