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Garden Force Centre County Farm Leicester Road South Creake Fakenham Norfolk NR21 9PW

26/00317/LDELawful Use Certificate - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 April 2026

Council decision: Was Lawful

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for the existing use of building as a cafe

Received
20 February 2026
Public comments
1
Ward
Bircham With Rudhams
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target20 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garden Force Centre County Farm Leicester Road South Creake Fakenham Norfolk NR21 9PW. Kings Lynn has handled 568 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 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 52 applications across Bircham With Rudhams. We hold 1,047 applications in total for the NR21 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
NR21 9PW
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Creake

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Consultation expiry
20 March 2026
Consultation start
27 February 2026
Consultation end
20 March 2026
Last date for comments
20 March 2026
Target decision date
20 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Paul Claxton 1 Vine House 3 Oak Street FAKENHAM NR21 9DX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14716223
Documents
11

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)
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.

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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