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Sproughton House High Street Sproughton Ipswich IP8 3AW

B/14/00052Prior Approval Office to Dwelling HouseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 January 2014

Council decision: Permission requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2013 - Change of use of ground floor from Class B1(a) (offices) to six self-contained flats Class C3 (dwellinghouse).

Received
16 January 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 11 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Sproughton House High Street Sproughton Ipswich IP8 3AW. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 11 days, 5 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 520 applications in total for the IP8 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
IP8 3AW
Application type
Prior Approval Office to Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sproughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2014
Consultation expiry
13 February 2014
Consultation start
23 January 2014
Neighbour consultation start
30 January 2014
Target decision date
27 February 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice end
13 February 2014

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Sproughton House, High Street, SproughtonRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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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