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Rookery Farm Barns Bale Road Gunthorpe Melton Constable Norfolk

PF/23/1582Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 5 January 2024

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)12 conditions

Proposal

Conversion of barns to 1no. dwelling, including associated works to demolish/rebuild/adapt various subsidiary buildings/lean-tos; hard and soft landscaping; erection of car port

Received
21 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Priory
Agent
Principle Planning Ltd
  1. Received21 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.22 Aug
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 165 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Rookery Farm Barns Bale Road Gunthorpe Melton Constable Norfolk. North Norfolk has handled 3,902 applications of this type. This one was decided in 168 days, 17 weeks longer than North Norfolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Priory.

93% of full applications at North Norfolk District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Gunthorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2023
Consultation expiry
1 September 2023
Consultation start
1 August 2023
Consultation end
22 August 2023
Last date for comments
1 September 2023
Target decision date
18 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Principle Planning Ltd
Agent address
Bankside 300 Broadland Business Park Norwich NR7 0LB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 August 2023
Site notice end
1 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12328768
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    19 May

    Discharge of Conditions 6 (Historic Building Recording) & 7 (Natural England Licence) of Planning Permission…

    Condition Discharge ReplyDischarge of conditionsCD/26/1049
  2. 2026
    19 May

    Variation of PF/23/1582

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)RV/26/1045
  3. 2023
    21 Jul

    Conversion of barns to 1no. dwelling, including associated works to demolish/rebuild/adapt various subsidiary…

    This applicationApprovedFullPF/23/1582

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