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Unit 1 Hawthorn Business Park Calais Street Boxford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 5JA

DC/21/03001Prior Approval Office to Dwelling HouseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 June 2021

Council decision: Formal Approval NOT ReqdDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Prior Approval for a Proposed Change of Use from Offices (Class B1(a)) to Dwellinghouses (Class C3). The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class O - Conversion of office building and land within its curtilage to 1no dwelling

Received
20 May 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Box Vale
Agent
Artisan PPS Ltd
  1. Received20 May
  2. Validated24 May
  3. Consult.23 Jun
  4. Target5 Jul
  5. Decided28 Jun

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Unit 1 Hawthorn Business Park Calais Street Boxford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 5JA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Box Vale. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 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
CO10 5JA
Application type
Prior Approval Office to Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Boxford

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 May 2021
Consultation expiry
23 June 2021
Consultation start
2 June 2021
Consultation end
23 June 2021
Neighbour consultation start
25 May 2021
Neighbour consultation end
15 June 2021
Last date for comments
23 June 2021
Target decision date
5 July 2021
Permission expires
28 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Artisan PPS Ltd
Agent address
Artisan PPS Ltd Berwick House Homechurch Baylham Ipswich IP6 8RF

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 June 2021
Site notice end
23 June 2021

Additional information

Documents
18
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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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