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The Old Post Cottage Water Lane Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AA

DC/22/04484Discharge of Condition(s)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 October 2022

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Discharge of Conditions Application relating to DC/22/01308 - Condition 4 (Biodivesity Enhancement Strategy)

Received
8 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Box Valley Architectural Design
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.29 Sep
  4. Target20 Oct
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at The Old Post Cottage Water Lane Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 2,320 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. 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.

95% of conditions 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 5AA
Application type
Discharge of Condition(s)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2022
Consultation expiry
29 September 2022
Consultation start
8 September 2022
Consultation end
29 September 2022
Last date for comments
29 September 2022
Target decision date
20 October 2022
Permission expires
3 October 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Box Valley Architectural Design
Architect profile
BOX VALLEY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
13 Gallows Hill Hadleigh IP7 6DD

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11533024
Documents
5
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Polstead
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old Post CottageOn this site
  • 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 (19)

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, 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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2022
    8 Sep

    Discharge of Conditions Application relating to DC/22/01308

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  2. 2022
    10 Mar

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    ApprovedHouseholderPart ofDC/22/01308

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