Allotment Gardens Station Road Laxfield

0373/10Full Planning ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved on 26 May 2010

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Change of use from allotment land to cemetery.

Received: 4 February 2010
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Babergh District Council
Ward: Stradbroke & Laxfield

ReceivedReceived4 Feb
ValidatedValidated12 Apr
Consult.Consultation31 Mar
TargetTarget Date7 Jun
DecidedDecided26 May

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Allotment Gardens Station Road Laxfield. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 9 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Stradbroke & Laxfield.

90% of full applications at Babergh District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type: Full Planning Application
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Laxfield

Planning application dates

Date validated: 12 April 2010
Consultation expiry: 7 April 2010
Consultation start: 13 May 2014
Consultation end: 31 March 2010
Last date for comments: 31 March 2010
Target decision date: 7 June 2010
Decision issued: 27 May 2010

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 17 March 2010
Site notice start: 12 March 2010
Site notice end: 7 April 2010

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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