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Former Pig Barn At Lodge Farm Back Street Gislingham IP23 8JH

DC/20/00045Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 March 2020

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a Proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to 5no Dwellinghouses (Class C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 as amended - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q

Received
7 January 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
54
Ward
Gislingham
Agent
K Day Architects
  1. Received7 Jan
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided2 Mar

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Former Pig Barn At Lodge Farm Back Street Gislingham IP23 8JH. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days 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 44 applications across Gislingham. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the IP23 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
IP23 8JH
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Gislingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2020
Consultation expiry
13 February 2020
Consultation start
30 January 2020
Consultation end
13 February 2020
Neighbour consultation start
8 January 2020
Neighbour consultation end
29 January 2020
Last date for comments
13 February 2020
Target decision date
19 February 2020
Permission expires
2 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
K Day Architects
Agent address
Beurope View Rectory Road Sheifanger Diss IP22 2DQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 January 2020
Site notice end
5 February 2020

Additional information

Documents
89
Constraints
3

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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