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Acorn Farms Ltd High Street Acton Suffolk

DC/24/04767Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 5 February 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)13 conditions

Proposal

Full Planning Application - Regularise the change of use of agricultural buildings to flexible commercial use (Use Class E(g)/B2 and B8).

Received
28 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Long Melford
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.8 Jan
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 99 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Acorn Farms Ltd High Street Acton Suffolk. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 100 days, 7 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford.

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

Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Acton

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2024
Consultation expiry
8 January 2025
Consultation start
18 December 2024
Consultation end
8 January 2025
Neighbour consultation start
30 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
20 November 2024
Last date for comments
8 January 2025
Target decision date
30 January 2025
Permission expires
5 February 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Wilson Wraight
Agent address
Regent House 110 Northgate Street Bury St Edmunds IP33 1HP

Planning decision

Statutory period
93 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 November 2024
Site notice end
2 December 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13321340
Documents
24
Constraints
7

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.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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