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Upper Meadow Polstead Hill Polstead CO6 5AH

DC/24/03894Full App Without Compliance of ConditionApproved
Full

Approved on 22 October 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application under Section 73A of the Town and Country Planning Act for DC/22/03353 (Two storey front extension, two storey garage, loft conversion and dormers (following demolition of existing extension and garage) for the variation of Condition 2 (Approved plans and documents) to change materials, garage design and increase ridge height.

Received
3 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Mandy Sexton Architect
  1. Received3 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Upper Meadow Polstead Hill Polstead CO6 5AH. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 2,320 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.

95% of conditions 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
CO6 5AH
Application type
Full App Without Compliance of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2024
Consultation expiry
4 October 2024
Consultation start
4 September 2024
Consultation end
25 September 2024
Neighbour consultation start
6 September 2024
Neighbour consultation end
27 September 2024
Last date for comments
4 October 2024
Target decision date
16 October 2024
Permission expires
22 October 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mandy Sexton Architect
Agent address
Mandy Sexton Architect The Old Rectory Colchester Road Chappel CO6 2AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 September 2024
Advertisement expiry
1 October 2024
Site notice start
13 September 2024
Site notice end
4 October 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13380478
Documents
11
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Polstead
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    3 Sep

    Application under Section 73A of the Town and Country Planning Act for DC/22/03353

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/24/03894
  2. 2022
    4 Jul

    Householder Application - Erection of two storey front extension and two storey garage, loft conversion and…

    ApprovedHouseholderPart ofDC/22/03353

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