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Little Wenham Hall Hall Lane Wenham Parva Colchester Suffolk CO7 6PZ

DC/24/02708Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 7 March 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)38 conditions

Proposal

Full Planning Application - Conversions and alterations to existing agricultural barns to form 6no. dwellings and 2no. holiday lets, and to provide ancillary visitor facilities for Wenham Castle, along with associated landscaping and alterations to existing access track.

Received
14 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
38
Ward
Copdock & Washbrook
Agent
Roger Balmer Design
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated15 Jun
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target28 Feb
  5. Decided7 Mar

Decided in 265 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Little Wenham Hall Hall Lane Wenham Parva Colchester Suffolk CO7 6PZ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 266 days, 31 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Copdock & Washbrook. We hold 2,580 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 6PZ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Wenham Parva

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 June 2024
Consultation expiry
1 October 2024
Consultation start
10 September 2024
Consultation end
1 October 2024
Neighbour consultation start
25 June 2024
Neighbour consultation end
16 July 2024
Last date for comments
1 October 2024
Target decision date
28 February 2025
Permission expires
7 March 2028

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
258 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 June 2024
Advertisement expiry
16 July 2024
Site notice start
3 July 2024
Site notice end
24 July 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12414915
Documents
126
Constraints
5

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    12 Feb

    Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/24/02708

    RefusedDischarge of conditionsDC/26/00596
  2. 2024
    14 Jun

    Full Planning Application - Conversions and alterations to existing agricultural barns to form 6no. dwellings…

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/24/02708
  3. 2024
    14 Jun

    Application for Listed Building Consent - Conversions and alterations to existing agricultural barns to form…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideDC/24/02709

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