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1 Gaol Lane Sudbury CO10 1JL

DC/24/02640Prior Approval CoU Commercial to Mixed UApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 August 2024

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a Proposed; Change of Use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) or Betting Office or Pay Day Loan shop to mixed use including 2no flats (Use Class C3) Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended Schedule 2, Part 3, Class G.

Received
12 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Sudbury North West
Agent
RR Planning Limited
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated12 Jun
  3. Consult.4 Jul
  4. Target24 Jul
  5. Decided2 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 1 Gaol Lane Sudbury CO10 1JL. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. The site is in the Sudbury conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Sudbury North West. We hold 3,166 applications in total for the CO10 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
CO10 1JL
Application type
Prior Approval CoU Commercial to Mixed U
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sudbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 June 2024
Consultation expiry
18 July 2024
Consultation start
13 June 2024
Consultation end
4 July 2024
Neighbour consultation start
14 June 2024
Neighbour consultation end
5 July 2024
Last date for comments
18 July 2024
Target decision date
24 July 2024
Decision issued
6 August 2024
Permission expires
6 August 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
RR Planning Limited
Agent address
RR Planning Limited 82A Otley Road Headingley Leeds LS6 4BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 June 2024
Site notice end
18 July 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13144048
Documents
19
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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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