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Lyston House Little St Marys Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9LB

DC/22/00135Lawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 25 March 2022

Council decision: Was LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing use or operation or activity including those in breach of a planning condition. Town and Country Planning Act 1990: Section 191 as amended by section 10 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991. Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 - Continued use of former commercial room forming part of residential dwelling known as Lyston House.

Received
11 January 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Long Melford
  1. Received11 Jan
  2. Validated8 Feb
  3. Consult.4 Mar
  4. Target22 Feb
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Lyston House Little St Marys Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9LB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Long Melford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 postcode area.

90% of amendment 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 9LB
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Long Melford

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 February 2022
Consultation expiry
4 March 2022
Consultation start
8 February 2022
Consultation end
4 March 2022
Neighbour consultation start
8 February 2022
Neighbour consultation end
1 March 2022
Last date for comments
4 March 2022
Target decision date
22 February 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10534437
Documents
11
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Long Melford
  • Listed building: Grade II: Lyston HouseOn this site · +3 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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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