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Street Farm Polstead Hill Polstead CO6 5AH

DC/23/04330Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 24 April 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Planning Application. Conversion of barn from ancillary residential to 1no new dwelling, following previous residential conversion approvals under outline application B/963/84 & reserved matters application B/1112/86.

Received
15 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
10
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated16 Sep
  3. Consult.8 Mar
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 221 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Street Farm Polstead Hill Polstead CO6 5AH. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 222 days, 25 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 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
CO6 5AH
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 September 2023
Consultation expiry
8 March 2024
Consultation start
16 February 2024
Consultation end
8 March 2024
Neighbour consultation start
16 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
8 March 2024
Last date for comments
8 March 2024
Target decision date
17 April 2024
Permission expires
24 April 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
Architect profile
WINCER KIEVENAAR ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd 2 Market Place Hadleigh IP7 5DN

Planning decision

Statutory period
214 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 September 2023
Advertisement expiry
17 October 2023
Site notice start
22 September 2023
Site notice end
13 October 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12350756
Documents
48
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Polstead
  • Listed building: Grade II: Corder'S HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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.

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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