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Arden Cottage Church Street Thornham Hunstanton Norfolk PE36 6NJ

25/01528/LDELawful Use Certificate - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 25 November 2025

Council decision: Was LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a 1.76 kw south facing solar panel system installed. Specifically a Growatt MC1500TL system rated at 1500W connected to a solar PV string of 1.6kWp installed in March 2025

Received
17 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Brancaster
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated7 Oct
  3. Consult.28 Oct
  4. Target2 Dec
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Arden Cottage Church Street Thornham Hunstanton Norfolk PE36 6NJ. Kings Lynn has handled 568 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks longer than Kings Lynn's typical decision time. The site is in the Thornham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 116 applications across Brancaster. We hold 216 applications in total for the PE36 postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
PE36 6NJ
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thornham

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 October 2025
Consultation expiry
28 October 2025
Consultation start
7 October 2025
Consultation end
28 October 2025
Last date for comments
28 October 2025
Target decision date
2 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14340387
Documents
10

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: Thornham Conservation Area
  • National Landscape (AONB): Norfolk Coast
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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: Kings Lynn

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