99 Prince Of Wales Road Norwich NR1 1DW
Approved on 15 July 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of vacant cafe ('Departure Lounge' at 99 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich) to a state funded primary school, to provide a Food Technology classroom / facility for the adjacent Charles Darwin Primary School.
- Received
- 28 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Norwich City Council
- Ward
- Thorpe Hamlet
- Agent
- J C Surveyors Ltd
- ReceivedReceived28 May
- ValidatedValidated2 Jun
- Consult.Consultation23 Jun
- TargetTarget Date27 Jul
- DecidedDecided15 Jul
Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 99 Prince Of Wales Road Norwich NR1 1DW. Norwich has handled 50 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Norwich's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across Thorpe Hamlet. We hold 275 applications in total for the NR1 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
- NR1 1DW
- Application type
- Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 26 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 23 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 June 2025
- Last date for comments
- 26 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 July 2025
- Decision issued
- 22 July 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- J C Surveyors Ltd
- Agent address
- Unit 4 Loddon Business Centre 2B High Street Loddon Norwich NR14 6AH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 4 June 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 25 June 2025
- Site notice start
- 5 June 2025
- Site notice end
- 26 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14014011
- Documents
- 0
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: City Centre
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Yare Broads and MarshesApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
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 (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, 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.
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Source: Norwich
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