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Abbey Farm Bury Road Cockfield Bury St Edmunds IP30 0LB

B/16/01107Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 October 2016

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 - Prior Approval Under Class Q(a&b) - Change of use from agricultural building to dwellinghouse (C3)

Received
8 August 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Cosford
  1. Received8 Aug
  2. Validated10 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 Sep
  5. Decided18 Oct

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Abbey Farm Bury Road Cockfield Bury St Edmunds IP30 0LB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 3 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across North Cosford. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 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
IP30 0LB
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cockfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 August 2016
Consultation expiry
9 September 2016
Consultation start
10 August 2016
Neighbour consultation start
10 August 2016
Target decision date
21 September 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 August 2016
Site notice end
9 September 2016

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: The AbbeyOn or next to this site

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, 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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