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White House Farm The Common Mellis IP23 8EB

2843/16Reserved MattersApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 October 2016

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for approval of reserved matters following outline approval (Ref: 0338/14) - severance of garden for erection of a dwelling and associated vehicular access. Application also provides information pursuant to condition 3 (Tree Protection Plan), and condition 4 (Great Crested Newt Survey) of outline approval (Ref: 0338/14).

Received
30 June 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Gislingham
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.15 Sep
  4. Target13 Oct
  5. Decided13 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at White House Farm The Common Mellis IP23 8EB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 8 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Mellis conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Gislingham. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the IP23 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
IP23 8EB
Application type
Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mellis

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2016
Consultation expiry
3 October 2016
Consultation start
25 August 2016
Consultation end
15 September 2016
Neighbour consultation start
13 October 2016
Last date for comments
15 September 2016
Target decision date
13 October 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 September 2016
Site notice start
12 September 2016
Site notice end
3 October 2016

Additional information

Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: MellisPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old ForgeOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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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