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Snail Hall Millwood Road Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AU

DC/22/04844Householder Planning ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 23 November 2022

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Householder Application - Proposed installation of ground mounted and roof mounted photo-voltaic panels.

Received
28 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
  1. Received28 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.24 Oct
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided23 Nov

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Snail Hall Millwood Road Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 5 other applications 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 5AU
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2022
Consultation expiry
22 November 2022
Consultation start
29 September 2022
Consultation end
24 October 2022
Neighbour consultation start
30 September 2022
Neighbour consultation end
21 October 2022
Last date for comments
22 November 2022
Target decision date
10 November 2022
Permission expires
23 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
Architect profile
WINCER KIEVENAAR ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
2 Market Place Hadleigh IP7 5DN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 October 2022
Advertisement expiry
1 November 2022
Site notice start
1 November 2022
Site notice end
22 November 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11567200
Documents
9
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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