Wasses Farmhouse Higham Marsh Stoke By Nayland Colchester Suffolk CO6 4SU

DC/20/02647Lawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 14 August 2020

Council decision: Was LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate for Existing Use or Operation including those in breach of a planning condition. Town and Country Planning Planning Act 1990. Section 191 as amended by Section 10 of the Planning Compensation Act 1991. Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015- Continued Use of Annexe at Wasses Farmhouse as a Separate Residential Dwelling Without Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission B/85/00521

Received: 1 July 2020
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Babergh District Council
Ward: Bures St Mary & Nayland
Agent: Ben Elvin Planning Consultancy

ReceivedReceived1 Jul
ValidatedValidated2 Jul
Consult.Consultation22 Jul
TargetTarget Date16 Jul
DecidedDecided14 Aug

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Wasses Farmhouse Higham Marsh Stoke By Nayland Colchester Suffolk CO6 4SU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Bures St Mary & Nayland. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.

90% of amendment 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 4SU
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Stoke By Nayland

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 July 2020
Consultation expiry: 23 July 2020
Consultation start: 1 July 2020
Consultation end: 22 July 2020
Neighbour consultation start: 2 July 2020
Neighbour consultation end: 23 July 2020
Last date for comments: 23 July 2020
Target decision date: 16 July 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent: Ben Elvin Planning Consultancy
Agent address: Ben Elvin Planning Consultancy 22 Constable Road IPSWICH IP4 2XA

Planning decision

Statutory period: 14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-08850689
Comments: 0
Documents: 4
Constraints: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
Listed building: Grade II: Wasses FarmhouseOn this site
National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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