The Timbers Banyards Green Laxfield Woodbridge Suffolk IP13 8EU
Refused on 16 July 2019
Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Notification for Prior Approval for a Proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Building to a Dwellinghouse (Class C3) and for associated Operational Development - Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Conversion to form 1no. dwelling.
- Received
- 16 May 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Stradbroke & Laxfield
- ReceivedReceived16 May
- ValidatedValidated23 May
- Consult.Consultation14 Jun
- TargetTarget Date4 Jul
- DecidedDecided16 Jul
Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at The Timbers Banyards Green Laxfield Woodbridge Suffolk IP13 8EU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Stradbroke & Laxfield. We hold 1,031 applications in total for the IP13 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
- IP13 8EU
- Application type
- Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Laxfield
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 May 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 27 June 2019
- Consultation start
- 24 May 2019
- Consultation end
- 14 June 2019
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 May 2019
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 June 2019
- Last date for comments
- 27 June 2019
- Target decision date
- 4 July 2019
- Permission expires
- 16 July 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 10A Quay Street Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 1BX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 6 June 2019
- Site notice end
- 27 June 2019
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20222 Nov
Full Planning Application - Conversion of and extension to Arcon building to form 1No dwelling, including…
RefusedFull Planning ApplicationDC/22/05463 - 201913 Aug
Notification for Prior Approval for a Proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Building to a Dwellinghouse…
ApprovedPrior Approval Agricultural to DwellDC/19/03856 - 20189 Oct
Planning Application - Erection of a single storey dwelling
WithdrawnFull Planning ApplicationDC/18/04481
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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