Valley Farm House Valley Farm Hadleigh Road Higham Colchester CO7 6LD
Approved on 5 December 2011
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Erection of pitched roof to annexe (following removal of existing flat roof).
- Received
- 7 October 2011
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- ReceivedReceived7 Oct
- ValidatedValidated10 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date21 Nov
- DecidedDecided5 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Valley Farm House Valley Farm Hadleigh Road Higham Colchester CO7 6LD. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,580 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- CO7 6LD
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Higham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 October 2011
- Consultation expiry
- 11 November 2011
- Consultation start
- 19 October 2011
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 October 2011
- Target decision date
- 21 November 2011
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 21 October 2011
- Site notice end
- 11 November 2011
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
- 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 (21)
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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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