Planning application 23/00775/FM (for a new hotel on the Hunstanton seafront) has certainly resulted in some interesting correspondence on the borough council’s planning portal. From past experience I know that the National Planning Policy Framework can sometimes be ignored by both applicants and planning officers at times like this. So it was refreshing to learn that Historic England has been consulted, as it should have been in 2002 when it was called English Heritage; but was not given an opportunity to defend the Hunstanton conservation area from the erection of a “monstrous carbuncle on t…