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Rockalls Farm House Millwood Road Polstead Suffolk CO6 5AX

DC/21/04915Householder Planning ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 5 November 2021

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Householder Application - Erection of two storey side extension and two storey new front extension.

Received
6 September 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Peter Wells Architects Ltd
  1. Received6 Sep
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.28 Sep
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided5 Nov

Decided in 59 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a two storey side extension at Rockalls Farm House Millwood Road Polstead Suffolk CO6 5AX. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 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 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 5AX
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2021
Consultation expiry
7 October 2021
Consultation start
7 September 2021
Consultation end
28 September 2021
Neighbour consultation start
8 September 2021
Neighbour consultation end
29 September 2021
Last date for comments
7 October 2021
Target decision date
29 October 2021
Permission expires
5 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Peter Wells Architects Ltd
Architect profile
PETER WELLS ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Office Farm Letheringham Woodbridge IP13 7RA

Planning decision

Statutory period
52 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 September 2021
Site notice end
7 October 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10042354
Documents
7
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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2022
    28 Mar

    Application under S73 for Removal or Variation of a Condition following grant of Planning Permission…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/22/01647
  2. 2021
    6 Sep

    Householder Application - Erection of two storey side extension and two storey new front extension.

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/21/04915

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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