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Merryvale House The Street Ashfield Cum Thorpe Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6LX

DC/22/06019Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 1 February 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for Listed Building Consent - Increase height of chimney including 3 chimney pots

Received
2 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Debenham
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 58 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Merryvale House The Street Ashfield Cum Thorpe Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6LX. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Debenham. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.

96% of heritage 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 6LX
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ashfield Cum Thorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2022
Consultation expiry
10 February 2023
Consultation start
20 January 2023
Consultation end
10 February 2023
Last date for comments
31 January 2023
Target decision date
27 January 2023
Permission expires
1 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
CORNERWAYS THE STREET SOUTHOLT EYE IP23 7QJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
53 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 December 2022
Advertisement expiry
4 January 2023
Site notice start
19 December 2022
Site notice end
9 January 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11724692
Documents
14
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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