Downs Garage Southgate Street Long Melford Sudbury CO10 9HU

B/17/00938Full Planning ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved on 8 September 2017

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act (1990) to vary conditions 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16 & 17 attached to B/13/00875/FUL for the erection of 3 No. detached dwellings (demolition of redundant filling station building).

Received: 3 April 2017
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 1
Council: Babergh District Council
Ward: Long Melford

ReceivedReceived3 Apr
ValidatedValidated11 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date23 May
DecidedDecided8 Sep

Decided in 150 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Downs Garage Southgate Street Long Melford Sudbury CO10 9HU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 16 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford. We hold 3,166 applications in total for the CO10 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: CO10 9HU
Application type: Full Planning Application
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Long Melford

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 April 2017
Consultation expiry: 25 May 2017
Consultation start: 21 April 2017
Neighbour consultation start: 22 April 2017
Target decision date: 23 May 2017
Decision issued: 22 September 2017
Permission expires: 22 September 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 4 May 2017
Site notice end: 25 May 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-05910450
Documents: 14

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Local nature reserve: The Railway WalksPart of the site
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, 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.

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Associated applications

2023
9 Feb
Application under S73a for the Removal or Variation of Conditions following grant of B/13/00875
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/23/00659
2018
6 Dec
Discharge of Conditions Application for B/17/00938
RefusedDischarge of conditionsDC/18/05362
2017
3 Apr
Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act (1990) to vary conditions 2, 7, 9, 10, 12…
This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)B/17/00938

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7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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