Overview
- King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council planning officer Lucy Smith concluded the proposal is lawful permitted development, noting no mechanism to assess general odour nuisance and finding no likely harm to tourism.
- The lagoon is planned at roughly 4,000 square metres with capacity near 10,000 cubic metres to store digestate for about 2,700 hectares of estate farmland, cutting reliance on manufactured fertiliser.
- The site lies off Icknield Way on the Sandringham estate near Anmer Hall and close to the village of Flitcham.
- Flitcham Parish Council and residents objected over odour, health risks, traffic, flies and potential water pollution, though some withdrew objections after meetings with estate officials and others said estate ties discouraged open opposition.
- Sandringham says odour will be managed through measures such as enclosed tankers, clean transfer points and limited stirring with landscape screening, while an agricultural expert argued smaller distributed stores would be preferable to a single central lagoon.