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Mill Hill Farm Barn Finborough Road Hitcham Ipswich Suffolk IP7 7LS

DC/17/03304Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 3 October 2017

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for a Proposed Change of Use of Agricultural building to a Dwellinghouse (Class C3), and Associated Operational Development - Change of use to residential dwelling.

Received
28 June 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Onehouse
  1. Received28 Jun
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.12 Oct
  4. Target26 Sep
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Mill Hill Farm Barn Finborough Road Hitcham Ipswich Suffolk IP7 7LS. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 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 29 applications across Onehouse. We hold 480 applications in total for the IP7 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
IP7 7LS
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hitcham

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2017
Consultation expiry
12 October 2017
Consultation start
21 September 2017
Consultation end
12 October 2017
Neighbour consultation start
17 August 2017
Neighbour consultation end
7 September 2017
Last date for comments
12 October 2017
Target decision date
26 September 2017
Permission expires
3 October 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Market Cross Debenham Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6RA

Planning decision

Case officer
Gemma Walker
Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 August 2017
Site notice end
15 September 2017

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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