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Pear Tree Farm The Street Ashfield Cum Thorpe IP14 6NA

0681/17Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 July 2017

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification under Class Q (a) and (b) Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - Proposed change of use of agricultural building and land within it's curtilage to residential use (Class C3)

Received
14 February 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Worlingworth
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated15 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Mar
  4. Target27 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 146 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Pear Tree Farm The Street Ashfield Cum Thorpe IP14 6NA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 14 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,277 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.

79% of outline 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

Postcode
IP14 6NA
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ashfield Cum Thorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 February 2017
Consultation expiry
23 March 2017
Consultation start
24 February 2017
Consultation end
17 March 2017
Neighbour consultation start
24 February 2017
Last date for comments
17 March 2017
Target decision date
27 July 2017
Permission expires
11 July 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
162 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 March 2017
Site notice end
23 March 2017

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
32

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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