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Agricultural Buildings Cratfield Lane Laxfield IP13 8EU

DC/23/05180Prior Approval DemolitionRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 1 December 2023

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for prior approval for proposed Demolition of 6no poultry houses, feeding tanks and hard-standing. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), Schedule 2, Part 11, Class B

Received
6 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Stradbroke & Laxfield
Agent
Peter Wells Architects Limited
  1. Received6 Nov
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Nov
  4. Target4 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Agricultural Buildings Cratfield Lane Laxfield IP13 8EU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Stradbroke & Laxfield. We hold 1,031 applications in total for the IP13 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
IP13 8EU
Application type
Prior Approval Demolition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Laxfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2023
Consultation expiry
22 November 2023
Consultation start
8 November 2023
Consultation end
22 November 2023
Last date for comments
22 November 2023
Target decision date
4 December 2023
Permission expires
1 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Peter Wells Architects Limited
Architect profile
PETER WELLS ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Peter Wells Architects Limited Ferry Quay House Ferry Quay Woodbridge IP12 1BW

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12505711
Documents
8
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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