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Norwich Community Hospital Bowthorpe Road Norwich NR2 3TU

24/00552/DEMDemolition Prior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 June 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demolition of boiler House, workshop, chemical Store, external Tanks, generators, microbiology block, garage adjacent to block 26 & portacabins, all located to the southeast of the Norwich Community Hospital.

Received
10 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Nelson
  1. Received10 May
  2. Validated10 May
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided13 Jun

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Norwich Community Hospital Bowthorpe Road Norwich NR2 3TU. Norwich has handled 50 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Norwich's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Nelson. We hold 395 applications in total for the NR2 postcode area.

94% of outline 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
NR2 3TU
Application type
Demolition Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 May 2024
Consultation expiry
6 June 2024
Consultation start
16 May 2024
Consultation end
6 June 2024
Last date for comments
6 June 2024
Target decision date
7 June 2024
Decision issued
17 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bidwells
Agent address
16 Upper King Street Norwich NR3 1HA

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12832249
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Yare Broads and MarshesApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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: Norwich

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