{"id":316824,"date":"2025-12-15T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:32:27","slug":"former-fakenham-school-building-could-be-turned-into-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316824\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fakenham school building could be turned into homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Highfield House, on Wells Road, was previously occupied by the sixth form college for the former Fakenham Academy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The school closed down in 2017 and has since relocated to the nearby Fakenham High School on Fields Lane.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk\/news\/25655609.burger-king-open-new-restaurant-fakenham-2026\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Burger King to open new restaurant in Fakenham in 2026<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The building has been vacant ever since, although plans were recently put forward to convert the site into six homes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This would also involve the construction of 20 more homes, with a mixture of terraced, semi-detached and detached two, three and four-bedroom houses planned.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>North Norfolk District Council will make a decision on the plans at a later date (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a planning statement with the application, it was confirmed that the other facilities at the site, the ATC Hall and the Duke of Lancaster Academy, will be unaffected by the proposal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The statement added that the development &#8220;will provide a range of housing to meet the needs of different groups within the local community&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk\/news\/25658343.morrisons-filling-station-fakenham-can-open-24-hours\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Morrisons filling station in Fakenham can be open 24 hours<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A decision on whether or not to approve the plans will be made by North Norfolk District Council at a later date.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The application, which was validated last month, can be viewed in full on the council&#8217;s planning portal, using the reference PF\/25\/2321.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highfield House, on Wells Road, was previously occupied by the sixth form college for the former Fakenham Academy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-316824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}