\n West Norfolk Council’s planning committee has been recommended to approve an application to change the use of a field off the A149 at Brancaster, near Hunstanton, when it meets in January 12.\n<\/p>\n
\n A planning officer’s report says the site forms part of Scheduled Ancient Monument known as Branodunum – a Roman fort which was established on the coast in around 230 AD.\n<\/p>\n
\n An artist’s impression of the layout of the lodges and pods (Image: Atelier Associates)\n<\/p>\n
\n Tom de Winton – a borough and parish councillor – has applied to build five three-bedroom lodges and three one-bedroom “pods” on the land, along with a new access and parking spaces for guests.\n<\/p>\n
\n A planning statement said they would be used for temporary stays and would not become “owner-occupied second homes”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Historic England said it not object in principle to the development. But it added if Mr de Winton obtained planning permission, he would still have to obtain scheduled monument consent before starting work on the site, which was separate to the planning process.\n<\/p>\n
\n Parish and borough councillor Tom de Winton (Image: Chris Bishop)\n<\/p>\n
\n Five objections were received, with one saying the holiday lets would not benefit the community and another saying they were concerned at their impact on the landscape.\n<\/p>\n
\n The field lies to the rear of homes on nearby Saxon Field and a bank with an acoustic fence will be built between the sites to help screen neighbours from noise.\n<\/p>\n
\n Little today remains of Branodunum, which had 10ft walls and stretched from the southern side of what is now the A149 towards the harbour it once formed part of.\n<\/p>\n
\n Parish and borough councillor Tom de Winton (Image: Chris Bishop)\n<\/p>\n
\n Troops were garrisoned in what was one of a network of shore forts stretching around the coastline between Norfolk and Hampshire, with the closest being Gariannonor at Caister-on-Sea.\n<\/p>\n
\n They stood guard over the coast for 150 years until the Romans withdraw and they fell into disuse 1,600 years ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n A housing estate has been built on Branodunum’s western fringes, while what was once the main fort is owned by the National Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Norfolk Council’s planning committee has been recommended to approve an application to change the use of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-340089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340089","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=340089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}