Castle Hill Farm Castle Hill Thorndon
Refused on 16 November 2022
Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for prior approval for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3), and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Conversion of agricultural building into 1No dwelling.
- Received
- 21 September 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Mendlesham
- ReceivedReceived21 Sep
- ValidatedValidated21 Sep
- Consult.Consultation19 Oct
- TargetTarget Date2 Nov
- DecidedDecided16 Nov
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Castle Hill Farm Castle Hill Thorndon. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Mendlesham.
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
- Application type
- Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Thorndon
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 September 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 28 October 2022
- Consultation start
- 28 September 2022
- Consultation end
- 19 October 2022
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 September 2022
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 October 2022
- Last date for comments
- 28 October 2022
- Target decision date
- 2 November 2022
- Permission expires
- 16 November 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- South View New Street Fressingfield Eye IP21 5PJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 7 October 2022
- Site notice end
- 28 October 2022
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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