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Sprowston Junior School, Recreation Ground Road, Sprowston, Norfolk NR7 8EW

FUL/2024/0056Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 5 June 2025

Council decision: Permitted/Approved

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

New Standalone Specialist Resource Base (SRB), demolition of an existing school building, and alterations to hard and soft landscaping at Sprowston Junior School.

Submitted
20 December 2024
Ward
Sprowston ED
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated20 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Jun

Decided in 167 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Sprowston Junior School, Recreation Ground Road, Sprowston, Norfolk NR7 8EW. Norfolk has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 167 days, 15 weeks longer than Norfolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Sprowston ED. We hold 812 applications in total for the NR7 postcode area.

87% of full applications at Norfolk County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NR7 8EW
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sprowston
District
Broadland

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 December 2024
Consultation expiry
30 January 2025
Consultation end
30 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 Octagon Business Park Hospital Road Little Plumstead Norwich NR13 5FH

Additional information

Documents
47

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Bure Broads and MarshesApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage 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, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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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