Co-Operative Food Store High Street Laxfield

3610/12Full Planning ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved on 15 January 2013

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Continued use of 1st floor flat to serve as storage ancillary to ground floor retail unit (A1).

Received: 27 November 2012
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Babergh District Council
Ward: Stradbroke & Laxfield

ReceivedReceived27 Nov
ValidatedValidated28 Nov
Consult.Consultation27 Dec
TargetTarget Date23 Jan
DecidedDecided15 Jan

Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Co-Operative Food Store High Street Laxfield. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in the Laxfield conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. 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: 28 November 2012
Consultation expiry: 2 January 2013
Consultation start: 6 December 2012
Consultation end: 27 December 2012
Neighbour consultation start: 6 December 2012
Last date for comments: 27 December 2012
Target decision date: 23 January 2013

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 12 December 2012
Site notice start: 7 December 2012
Site notice end: 2 January 2013

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-02321219
Comments: 0
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Laxfield
Listed building: Grade II: West End HouseOn 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

© 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.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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