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Land At Elmers Howe Lane Cockfield IP30 0HA

DC/24/04252Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 September 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)27 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Full Planning Application - Demolition of parts of listed building, erection of 1 no. self build dwelling, construction of new vehicular access to Howe Lane and installation of 2 no. domestic sewage treatment plants.

Received
23 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
17
Ward
Lavenham
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated22 Apr
  3. Consult.13 May
  4. Target5 Sep
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 142 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Land At Elmers Howe Lane Cockfield IP30 0HA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 353 days, 43 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 92 applications across Lavenham. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 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
IP30 0HA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Cockfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 April 2025
Consultation expiry
13 May 2025
Consultation start
22 April 2025
Consultation end
13 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
22 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
6 May 2025
Last date for comments
6 May 2025
Target decision date
5 September 2025
Permission expires
11 September 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Berwick House Homechurch Baylham IP6 8RF

Planning decision

Statutory period
136 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 October 2024
Advertisement expiry
29 October 2024
Site notice start
11 October 2024
Site notice end
1 November 2024

Additional information

Documents
67
Constraints
3

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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© 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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