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17 Wheatfields Thurston Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3TE

DC/23/01805Lawful Development Certificate ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 June 2023

Council decision: Was LawfulLegal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed Use and/or Development - Conversion of garage into kitchen and utility space

Received
14 April 2023
Decision level
Legal
Ward
Thurston
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target9 May
  5. Decided20 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 17 Wheatfields Thurston Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3TE. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 3 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 118 applications across Thurston. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
IP31 3TE
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thurston

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2023
Consultation expiry
16 May 2023
Consultation start
25 April 2023
Consultation end
16 May 2023
Last date for comments
16 May 2023
Target decision date
9 May 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12091979
Comments
0
Documents
1
Constraints
2

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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