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Church Farm Church Lane Occold Eye Suffolk IP23 7PR

DC/24/03622Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 20 December 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)14 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Planning Application - Conversion of barn to form an agricultural workers dwelling and associated change of use of agricultural land to residential amenity land.

Received
13 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Eye
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.30 Oct
  4. Target13 Dec
  5. Decided20 Dec

Decided in 128 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Church Farm Church Lane Occold Eye Suffolk IP23 7PR. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 129 days, 11 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Eye. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the IP23 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
IP23 7PR
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Occold

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2024
Consultation expiry
14 November 2024
Consultation start
9 October 2024
Consultation end
30 October 2024
Neighbour consultation start
9 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
30 October 2024
Last date for comments
14 November 2024
Target decision date
13 December 2024
Permission expires
20 December 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Brown & Co
Agent address
Ground Floor The Atrium St Georges Street Norwich Norfolk NR3 1AB

Planning decision

Statutory period
121 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 October 2024
Advertisement expiry
6 November 2024
Site notice start
24 October 2024
Site notice end
14 November 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13307297
Documents
41
Constraints
1

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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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