Elm Cottage Beales Drive Brettenham IP7 7QL
Refused on 21 August 2023
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Householder Application - Conversion of car port to garage with addition of side walls and doors.
- Received
- 21 June 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- North West Cosford
- ReceivedReceived21 Jun
- ValidatedValidated10 Jul
- Consult.Consultation14 Aug
- TargetTarget Date21 Aug
- DecidedDecided21 Aug
Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at Elm Cottage Beales Drive Brettenham IP7 7QL. 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. The site is in the Brettenham conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across North West Cosford. We hold 482 applications in total for the IP7 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
- IP7 7QL
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Brettenham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 July 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 14 August 2023
- Consultation start
- 24 July 2023
- Consultation end
- 14 August 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 July 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 2 August 2023
- Last date for comments
- 14 August 2023
- Target decision date
- 21 August 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 July 2023
- Site notice end
- 9 August 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Brettenham
- 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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