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Keepers Cottage The Street Botesdale Diss Suffolk IP22 1BS

DC/24/01958Lawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 21 June 2024

Council decision: Granted

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity, including those in breach of a planning condition Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - Continued use of building as a dwelling (C3).

Received
25 April 2024
Public comments
1
Ward
Rickinghall
Agent
Phil Cobbold Planning Ltd
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated26 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target10 May
  5. Decided21 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Keepers Cottage The Street Botesdale Diss Suffolk IP22 1BS. 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. The site is in the Botesdale conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 87 applications across Rickinghall. We hold 1,538 applications in total for the IP22 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
IP22 1BS
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Botesdale

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 April 2024
Consultation expiry
17 May 2024
Consultation start
25 April 2024
Consultation end
16 May 2024
Neighbour consultation start
26 April 2024
Neighbour consultation end
17 May 2024
Last date for comments
17 May 2024
Target decision date
10 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Phil Cobbold Planning Ltd
Agent address
42 Beatrice Avenue Felixstowe IP11 9HB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13007578
Documents
13
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (20)

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, 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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