Wilmarie Hadleigh Road Higham Colchester Suffolk CO7 6LF
Approved on 23 April 2024
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Householder Application - Erection of annexe for use ancillary to the host dwelling, store and workshop including landscaping and erection of boundary wall and external staircase (following removal of outbuildings and structures).
- Received
- 23 February 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- Agent
- Roger Balmer Design
- ReceivedReceived23 Feb
- ValidatedValidated28 Feb
- Consult.Consultation20 Mar
- TargetTarget Date10 Apr
- DecidedDecided23 Apr
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Wilmarie Hadleigh Road Higham Colchester Suffolk CO7 6LF. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days 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 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,584 applications in total for the CO7 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
- CO7 6LF
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Higham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 February 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 6 April 2024
- Consultation start
- 28 February 2024
- Consultation end
- 20 March 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 28 February 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 March 2024
- Last date for comments
- 6 April 2024
- Target decision date
- 10 April 2024
- Permission expires
- 23 April 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Roger Balmer Design
- Agent address
- Fountain House Studio The Street East Bergholt Colchester CO7 6TB United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 5 March 2024
- Advertisement expiry
- 26 March 2024
- Site notice start
- 16 March 2024
- Site notice end
- 6 April 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12715849
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (21)
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, 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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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