Ark Hill Cottage Withersdale Road Mendham Harleston Suffolk IP20 0JB
Approved on 25 July 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions
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Proposal
Householder Application - Erection of a rear extension and insertion of a ground floor window to south east elevation (following demolition of the conservatory)
- Received
- 8 November 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Fressingfield
- ReceivedReceived8 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Mar
- Consult.Consultation14 Jul
- TargetTarget Date24 Jul
- DecidedDecided25 Jul
Decided in 128 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at Ark Hill Cottage Withersdale Road Mendham Harleston Suffolk IP20 0JB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 259 days, 30 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 54 applications across Fressingfield. We hold 339 applications in total for the IP20 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
- IP20 0JB
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Mendham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 14 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 30 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 14 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 14 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 24 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 25 July 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Ensemble Architecture Hamilton House 3 Norwich Road North Walsham NR28 9JP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 127 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 24 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 14 April 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13507424
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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