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Newall Plant Limited, Heron Farm, Bunwell Road, Besthorpe, NR17 2LN

FUL/2025/0013Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 20 August 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed Aggregate and Soil Recovery Facility (Part Retrospective) permitted by permission FUL/2023/0019, without compliance with condition 1 (schedule of approved plans and documents) to allow operation of machinery above ground level for 1 hour per week.

Submitted
21 May 2025
Ward
Attleborough ED
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.18 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 91 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Newall Plant Limited, Heron Farm, Bunwell Road, Besthorpe, NR17 2LN. Norfolk has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 4 weeks longer than Norfolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 428 applications in total for the NR17 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
NR17 2LN
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Besthorpe
District
Breckland

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2025
Consultation expiry
18 June 2025
Consultation end
18 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
52 Neatherd Road Dereham Norfolk NR20 4AQ

Appeal history

6004955
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 8 July 2026Dev Type: Other Major DevelopmentsReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
9

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)

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, 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 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.

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