{"id":700155,"date":"2026-07-19T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:56:11","slug":"bid-to-keep-thornham-sauna-built-without-planning-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700155\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid to keep Thornham sauna built without planning permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Wild Luxury added the Finnish-style facility, along with two cold plunge pools and an outdoor shower to its glamping site at Thornham, near Hunstanton, earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It has now applied for formal permission for the addition to its wellbeing site, which it says is &#8220;modest in both scale and impact&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A planning statement says similar facilities to the Hidden Sauna Club, as the development is known, are rare in the area,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It adds the business was set up to &#8220;to create an accessible wellbeing facility that encourages people to spend time outdoors&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And it concludes: &#8220;The business has created employment opportunities for local people and, in an increasingly digital world, provides a space where people can spend time together in nature without phones, distractions or alcohol at the centre of the experience.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The sauna operates seven days a week, mainly during the daytime but also sometimes hosts evening sessions for six to eight people at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild Luxury added the Finnish-style facility, along with two cold plunge pools and an outdoor shower to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700155","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=700155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}