Meadow On Melford Road And Land Adjacent Lambs Lane Melford Road Lawshall Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP29 4PX
Refused on 4 October 2023
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Full Application - Change of use of land from Agricultural to recreational and siting of 7No caravans and 1No holiday lodge (retention of)
- Received
- 5 February 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 9
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Chadacre
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Apr
- Consult.Consultation12 May
- TargetTarget Date29 Sep
- DecidedDecided4 Oct
Decided in 182 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Meadow On Melford Road And Land Adjacent Lambs Lane Melford Road Lawshall Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP29 4PX. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 241 days, 27 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 70 applications across Chadacre. We hold 1,033 applications in total for the IP29 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
- IP29 4PX
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Lawshall
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 April 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 12 May 2023
- Consultation start
- 6 April 2023
- Consultation end
- 12 May 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 April 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 April 2023
- Last date for comments
- 12 May 2023
- Target decision date
- 29 September 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 177 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 20 April 2023
- Site notice end
- 11 May 2023
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11891635
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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