Bumper row of business units built without permission allowed to stay after year-long planning row

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West Norfolk Council has granted retrospective planning permission for 19 shipping container "micro units" erected without authorisation on Edward Benefer Way in King's Lynn, bringing a year-long planning dispute to a close.Committee members voted overwhelmingly — 11 to two — in favour of allowing the structures to remain, defying a recommendation from planning officers to reject the application.Officers had argued the development would damage trade in the town centre and create traffic problems on one of the key routes into the Norfolk town.The decision means the entire row of business units, which were constructed and occupied before any consent was sought, can now stay.The containers, each measuring 5m by 2m, were installed at the front of a self storage facility on the site of a former fuel depot that had sat derelict for decades.The park is operated by 1st Self Storage, which established the business on the disused land.Council officers initially turned down the retrospective...

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