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Rivers Farm Barn High Street Sproughton

B/08/01813Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 31 August 2010

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Conversion of agricultural building to Class B1(a) (Office and Design Studio) Use, construction of new vehicular access and car park.

Received
28 November 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Jul
  5. Decided31 Aug

Decided in 78 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Rivers Farm Barn High Street Sproughton. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 641 days, 85 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

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
Sproughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2010
Consultation expiry
7 July 2010
Consultation start
6 August 2012
Neighbour consultation start
31 August 2010
Target decision date
26 July 2010

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice end
7 July 2010

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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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