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Great Ashfield Airfield Haugh Lane Great Ashfield (part In The Parish Of Elmswell) IP31 3HP

DC/22/06410Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 2 March 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Full Planning Application - Change of Use of 2No former aircraft hangars and existing airfield building to commercial storage (Use Class B8), and siting of 6no storage containers with associated vehicular access and parking.

Received
31 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Walsham-le-Willows
  1. Received31 Dec
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target16 Feb
  5. Decided2 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Great Ashfield Airfield Haugh Lane Great Ashfield (part In The Parish Of Elmswell) IP31 3HP. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days 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 79 applications across Walsham-le-Willows. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
IP31 3HP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Ashfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2023
Consultation expiry
23 February 2023
Consultation start
17 February 2023
Consultation end
23 February 2023
Neighbour consultation start
6 January 2023
Neighbour consultation end
27 January 2023
Last date for comments
23 February 2023
Target decision date
16 February 2023
Permission expires
2 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Savills
Agent address
Parkview House Victoria Road South Chelmsford Essex CM1 1BT United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 January 2023
Advertisement expiry
1 February 2023
Site notice start
13 January 2023
Site notice end
3 February 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11769137
Documents
23
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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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