Woodlands Farm Rockalls Road Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5BF
Approved on 21 February 2020
Council decision: Formal Approval NOT ReqdDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for Prior Notification of agricultural or forestry development - proposed building. Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development Order 2015 Schedule 2, Part 6 - Erection of steel framed storage building.
- Received
- 13 February 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived13 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Feb
- Consult.Consultation21 Feb
- TargetTarget Date12 Mar
- DecidedDecided21 Feb
Decided in 8 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a planning application at Woodlands Farm Rockalls Road Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5BF. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 220 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 6 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 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.
94% of all 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 5BF
- Application type
- Agricultural Determination
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Polstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 February 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 21 February 2020
- Consultation start
- 13 February 2020
- Consultation end
- 21 February 2020
- Last date for comments
- 20 February 2020
- Target decision date
- 12 March 2020
- Permission expires
- 21 February 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- C B Mckenna
- Agent address
- Lawn Farm Upper Tye Gt Cornard Sudbury CO10 0QA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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