Post Office And Stores Park Street Stoke By Nayland Colchester Suffolk CO6 4SE

DC/23/03802Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 16 November 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application for Listed Building Consent - Subdivision of property to provide living accommodation to serve existing post office and form separate 2-bed dwelling, re-positioning oil tank, condenser and siting EV charging point including creation of parking area and alterations to windows, doors and internal layout; demolition of part wall and roof of workshop..

Received: 12 August 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 2
Council: Babergh District Council
Ward: Bures St Mary & Nayland
Agent: Optimum Architecture Ltd

ReceivedReceived12 Aug
ValidatedValidated14 Aug
Consult.Consultation3 Nov
TargetTarget Date10 Nov
DecidedDecided16 Nov

Decided in 94 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Post Office And Stores Park Street Stoke By Nayland Colchester Suffolk CO6 4SE. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 96 days, 7 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Stoke by Nayland conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Bures St Mary & Nayland. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.

96% of heritage 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: CO6 4SE
Application type: Listed Building Consent
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Stoke By Nayland

Planning application dates

Date validated: 14 August 2023
Consultation expiry: 3 November 2023
Consultation start: 20 October 2023
Consultation end: 3 November 2023
Last date for comments: 3 November 2023
Target decision date: 10 November 2023
Permission expires: 16 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent: Optimum Architecture Ltd
Agent address: Optimum Architecture Ltd Nags Corner Nayland Nr Colchester CO6 4LT

Planning decision

Statutory period: 88 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 22 August 2023
Advertisement expiry: 12 September 2023
Site notice start: 23 August 2023
Site notice end: 13 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12331783
Documents: 25
Constraints: 10

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Stoke by Nayland
Listed building: Grade II: Park Street StoresOn this site · +2 more
National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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