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Corner Farm Lawshall Road Cockfield Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 0JP

DC/24/00631Lawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 4 April 2024

Council decision: Was LawfulLegal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity including those in breach of a planning condition. Town & Country Planning Act 1990 - Confirmation that a Portacabin has been used as an office for over 10 years. Please see attached forms

Received
7 February 2024
Decision level
Legal
Public comments
1
Ward
Chadacre
Agent
Evolution Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received7 Feb
  2. Validated8 Feb
  3. Consult.29 Feb
  4. Target22 Feb
  5. Decided4 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Corner Farm Lawshall Road Cockfield Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 0JP. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Chadacre. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 postcode area.

90% of amendment 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
IP30 0JP
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lawshall

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 February 2024
Consultation expiry
29 February 2024
Consultation start
8 February 2024
Consultation end
29 February 2024
Neighbour consultation start
8 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
29 February 2024
Last date for comments
29 February 2024
Target decision date
22 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Evolution Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
Opus House Elm Farm Park Thurston Bury St Edmunds IP31 3SH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12633818
Documents
11
Constraints
5

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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