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Land To The South West Of Nutwood The Street Bacton Suffolk

DC/23/03916Lawful Development Certificate ProposedRefused
Reserved matters

Refused on 27 October 2023

Council decision: Was Not LawfulLegal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed Use/Development - Confirmation of lawful commencement of Phase 1 (Enabling Works) and Phase 2A (Plot 1) as approved under reserved matters approval DC/20/02656 pursuant to permission DC/18/04868 (Erection of up to 5 No. detached dwellings with garages)

Received
18 August 2023
Decision level
Legal
Ward
Bacton
  1. Received18 Aug
  2. Validated19 Aug
  3. Consult.14 Sep
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land To The South West Of Nutwood The Street Bacton Suffolk. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 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 32 applications across Bacton.

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

Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bacton

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 August 2023
Consultation expiry
14 September 2023
Consultation start
24 August 2023
Consultation end
14 September 2023
Last date for comments
14 September 2023
Target decision date
1 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Market Place Stowmarket IP14 1DN

Planning decision

Statutory period
13 days

Appeal history

3335099
Dismissed
Type: Lawful Development CertificateProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 18 November 2025Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12393468
Comments
0
Documents
2
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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