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Garsett House 1 Princes Street Norwich NR3 1AU

23/00506/UChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 20 September 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from office (Class E) to dwellinghouses (Class C3) to provide 1 No. residential unit.

Received
26 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Thorpe Hamlet
Agent
Building Plans Ltd
  1. Received26 Apr
  2. Validated26 Apr
  3. Consult.18 Sep
  4. Target21 Jun
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 147 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garsett House 1 Princes Street Norwich NR3 1AU. Norwich has handled 60 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than Norwich's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Thorpe Hamlet. We hold 243 applications in total for the NR3 postcode area.

98% of amendment applications at Norwich City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NR3 1AU
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 April 2023
Consultation expiry
18 September 2023
Consultation start
2 May 2023
Consultation end
18 September 2023
Neighbour consultation start
2 May 2023
Neighbour consultation end
23 May 2023
Last date for comments
2 June 2023
Target decision date
21 June 2023
Decision issued
25 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Building Plans Ltd
Architect profile
BUILDING PLANS LIMITED
Agent address
11 The Street Honingham Norwich NR9 5BL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 May 2023
Site notice end
1 June 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12120940
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: City Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: Garsett HouseOn this site · +2 more
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Yare Broads and MarshesApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • Brownfield land register: 9-10 Redwell StreetRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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. 2023
    26 Apr

    Change of use from office (Class E) to dwellinghouses (Class C3) to provide 1 No. residential unit.

    This applicationRefusedAmendment23/00506/U
  2. 2023
    26 Apr

    Alterations to facilitate the conversion to dwellinghouses (Class C3) to provide 1 No. residential unit.

    RefusedListed building consentFiled alongside23/00507/L

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