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Railway Tavern The Common Mellis Eye Suffolk IP23 8DU

DC/21/00799Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 May 2021

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Planning Application - Change of use of B&B/function room and store to form 2no. holiday lets including external alterations.

Received
10 February 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Gislingham
  1. Received10 Feb
  2. Validated15 Mar
  3. Consult.12 May
  4. Target26 Apr
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Railway Tavern The Common Mellis Eye Suffolk IP23 8DU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 6 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Mellis conservation area. There have been 4 other applications 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.

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

Postcode
IP23 8DU
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mellis

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 March 2021
Consultation expiry
12 May 2021
Consultation start
28 April 2021
Consultation end
12 May 2021
Neighbour consultation start
22 March 2021
Neighbour consultation end
12 April 2021
Last date for comments
12 May 2021
Target decision date
26 April 2021
Permission expires
14 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
24 March 2021
Advertisement expiry
14 April 2021
Site notice start
31 March 2021
Site notice end
21 April 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09508979
Documents
21
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Mellis
  • 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, 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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