Planning permission in Breckland

All applications on record, not only the last 12 months.

Tree works in a conservation area: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

UU - Unilateral Undertaking: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

DOR Discharge of Requirements: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

Variation of Cond's: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

Listed Build Consent: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

Cert.Law.Prop.Use: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

Minerals and waste: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

Agricultural Notifcn: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

Dev Consent Order: no refusals are recorded in this category for this authority, so no approval rate is shown.

* Other combines smaller categories: Cert. Law.Exist.Use (14), Change of Use (14), PAAF Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: erection, extension or alteration of a building for agricultural or forestry use (13), Reserved matters (detail after outline approval) (11), Environmental impact screening and scoping (10), PIP Application for permission in principle (9), Use Class (9), Non Mat Minor Amend (6), FCU Flexible change of use (S2, PT4) (6), Phone masts and telecoms (6), Variation Obligation (5), SCR Request for screening opinion (5), HIS Historic application (5), OHIS Outline (Historic) (5), SU Notifications under Circular 14/90 (electricity generating stations and overhead lines) (5), Demolition (4), OMIN Outline application minor (4), Larger extensions (householder prior approval) (4), PAQ Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use of agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses (class C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion (4), Hedgerow Removal (4), Statutory Undertaker (3), PAHIS Prior Approval (Historic) (2), CM County Matters (2), Permission Principle (2), HSC Hazardous substance consent (2), DOC Confirmation (2), HR Regulation 77 (Habitats Regulation) (1), PAR Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use of agricultural buildings to a flexible use within shops, financial and professional services, restaurants and cafes, business, storage or distribution, hotels or assembly and leisure (1), HRN Hedgerow removal notice (1), NN-S106 (1), Solar Photovoltaics (1), PADEM Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Demolition of Buildings (1), PAPW Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed formation, alteration or maintenance of private ways for agricultural or forestry use (1), PADB Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed demolition of buildings and construction of new dwellinghouses in their place (1), Planning Obligation (1), Discharge Obligation (1), PAM Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use from shops, financial and professional services, takeaways, betting offices, pay day loan shops or launderettes; or mixed use combining use as a dwelling with a shop or financial and professional service, betting office, pay day loan shop or launderette; to dwellinghouses and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion (1), PAPV Application to determine if prior approval is required for the installation, alteration or replacement of other Photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the roofs on non-domestic buildings (1), Reserved Matter Historic (1), PAMA Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed change of use from commercial, business and service (Use Class E) to dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) (1), SCO Request for scoping opinion (1), RMIN Reserved matters (minor) (1).

The most recent three years. Earlier decisions are included in the totals above but not in this chart.

The 12 wards with the most decided applications, across all years. 233 further decided applications fall in wards not shown.

Among wards with at least 20 decided applications, approval rates range from 83.2% in All Saints and Wayland to 94.0% in Swaffham, a gap of 10.8 percentage points.

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