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Rectory Farm Great Green Thrandeston Diss Suffolk IP21 4BN

DC/20/05757Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 9 February 2021

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

An application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed:Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (Class C3), and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Conversion for form 1No dwelling.

Received
15 December 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Palgrave
Agent
Roberts Molloy Architects
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated16 Dec
  3. Consult.7 Jan
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Rectory Farm Great Green Thrandeston Diss Suffolk IP21 4BN. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Palgrave. We hold 673 applications in total for the IP21 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
IP21 4BN
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thrandeston

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 December 2020
Consultation expiry
27 January 2021
Consultation start
17 December 2020
Consultation end
7 January 2021
Neighbour consultation start
17 December 2020
Neighbour consultation end
7 January 2021
Last date for comments
27 January 2021
Target decision date
27 January 2021
Permission expires
9 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Roberts Molloy Architects
Agent address
3 Church Lane Bressingham Diss IP22 2AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 January 2021
Site notice end
27 January 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09325089
Comments
0
Documents
14
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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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