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Land On West Side Of Bickers Hill Road Laxfield Suffolk

DC/19/04998Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 18 May 2020

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Planning Application - Erection of 11no dwellings including 3no affordable dwellings

Received
23 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Stradbroke & Laxfield
Agent
Phil Cobbold Planning Ltd
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.6 Apr
  4. Target27 Dec
  5. Decided18 May

Decided in 199 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land On West Side Of Bickers Hill Road Laxfield Suffolk. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 208 days, 23 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Stradbroke & Laxfield.

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

Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
11
Parish
Laxfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 November 2019
Consultation expiry
6 April 2020
Consultation start
23 March 2020
Consultation end
6 April 2020
Neighbour consultation start
1 November 2019
Neighbour consultation end
22 November 2019
Last date for comments
6 April 2020
Target decision date
27 December 2019
Permission expires
18 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Phil Cobbold Planning Ltd
Agent address
42 Beatrice Avenue Felixstowe IP11 9HB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 November 2019
Advertisement expiry
27 November 2019
Site notice start
7 November 2019
Site notice end
28 November 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08246797
Documents
46
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2022
    16 Nov

    Application under S73a for Removal or Variation of a Condition following grant of Planning Permission…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/22/05732
  2. 2019
    23 Oct

    Planning Application - Erection of 11no dwellings including 3no affordable dwellings

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/19/04998

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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