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Woodlands Farm Rockalls Road Polstead Suffolk CO6 5BF

DC/21/02362Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 26 May 2021

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Planning Application - Erection of steel portal framed agricultural building

Received
21 April 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Brett Vale
  1. Received21 Apr
  2. Validated23 Apr
  3. Consult.19 May
  4. Target4 Jun
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Woodlands Farm Rockalls Road Polstead Suffolk CO6 5BF. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
CO6 5BF
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 April 2021
Consultation expiry
19 May 2021
Consultation start
23 April 2021
Consultation end
19 May 2021
Last date for comments
19 May 2021
Target decision date
4 June 2021
Permission expires
26 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
C B Mckenna
Agent address
C B Mckenna Lawn Farm Upper Tye Gt Cornard Sudbury CO10 0QA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09761281
Documents
13
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

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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