Rockalls Hall Rockalls Road Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AT
Approved on 6 August 2019
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Planning application - Erection of attached annex (following partial demolition of existing building)
- Received
- 21 June 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived21 Jun
- ValidatedValidated25 Jun
- Consult.Consultation19 Jul
- TargetTarget Date6 Aug
- DecidedDecided6 Aug
Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at Rockalls Hall Rockalls Road Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AT. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 3 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 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
- CO6 5AT
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Polstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 June 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 19 July 2019
- Consultation start
- 26 June 2019
- Consultation end
- 19 July 2019
- Neighbour consultation start
- 26 June 2019
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 July 2019
- Last date for comments
- 19 July 2019
- Target decision date
- 6 August 2019
- Permission expires
- 6 August 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 58 Milson Road Olympia London W14 0LB United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 28 June 2019
- Site notice end
- 19 July 2019
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
- 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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