Wigfield House 5A Laurel Drive Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9ER
Approved on 9 March 2023
Council decision: Was LawfulLegal
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed use or Development Town and Country Planning Act 1990: Section 192 as amended by Section 10 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 Town and Country Planning (General Management Procedure (England) Order 1990 - Installation of 15No solar panels on south facing roofslope.
- Received
- 23 January 2023
- Decision level
- Legal
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Long Melford
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated24 Jan
- Consult.Consultation13 Feb
- TargetTarget Date7 Feb
- DecidedDecided9 Mar
Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Wigfield House 5A Laurel Drive Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9ER. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 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
- CO10 9ER
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Long Melford
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 January 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 13 February 2023
- Consultation start
- 23 January 2023
- Consultation end
- 13 February 2023
- Last date for comments
- 13 February 2023
- Target decision date
- 7 February 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 14 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Long MelfordNext to the site
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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