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Rookery Barn Rookery Lane Walsham Le Willows Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3BD

DC/19/01250Outline Planning ApplicationRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 5 July 2019

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline Planning Application (all matters reserved) - Erection of 1no. detached dwelling.

Received
14 March 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Walsham-le-Willows
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated14 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target25 Jun
  5. Decided5 Jul

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Rookery Barn Rookery Lane Walsham Le Willows Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3BD. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 9 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Walsham-le-Willows. We hold 1,716 applications in total for the IP31 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
IP31 3BD
Application type
Outline Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Walsham Le Willows

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 May 2019
Consultation expiry
27 June 2019
Consultation start
14 May 2019
Consultation end
4 June 2019
Neighbour consultation start
14 May 2019
Neighbour consultation end
4 June 2019
Last date for comments
27 June 2019
Target decision date
25 June 2019
Decision issued
8 July 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
10A Quay Street Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 1BX

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
27 March 2019
Advertisement expiry
17 April 2019
Site notice start
6 June 2019
Site notice end
27 June 2019

Appeal

Appeal reference
AP/19/00224
Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed with Conditions

Additional information

Documents
44
Constraints
2

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
  • Conservation area: Walsham le WillowsPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: The RookeryOn this site · +1 more

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 (20)

flood storage 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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2020
    12 Aug

    Application for approval of reserved matters following outline approval DC/19/01250

    ApprovedReserved mattersRelatedDC/20/03436
  2. 2019
    14 Mar

    Outline Planning Application (all matters reserved) - Erection of 1no. detached dwelling.

    This applicationRefusedOutlineDC/19/01250

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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