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Mill Green Farm Debenham Road Stonham Aspal Part In The Parish Of Mickfield Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6BZ

DC/22/05499Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 6 January 2023

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required 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 barn to form 3No dwellings

Received
3 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Stonham
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target26 Dec
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Mill Green Farm Debenham Road Stonham Aspal Part In The Parish Of Mickfield Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6BZ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Stonham. We hold 1,277 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.

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

Postcode
IP14 6BZ
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stonham Aspal

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2022
Consultation expiry
26 December 2022
Consultation start
14 November 2022
Consultation end
5 December 2022
Neighbour consultation start
15 November 2022
Neighbour consultation end
6 December 2022
Last date for comments
26 December 2022
Target decision date
26 December 2022
Permission expires
6 January 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Chalk Farm High Street Babraham Cambridge CB22 3AG

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 December 2022
Site notice end
26 December 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11628586
Documents
19
Constraints
3

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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