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Land Adjacent To Bullen Lane Bramford IP8 4JN

DC/24/05090Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 27 March 2025

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee26 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Planning Application. Construction, operation and maintenance of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with associated infrastructure and works including highway access, landscaping and biodiversity enhancements.

Received
20 November 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
40
Ward
Bramford
  1. Received20 Nov
  2. Validated21 Nov
  3. Consult.28 Feb
  4. Target21 Mar
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 126 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land Adjacent To Bullen Lane Bramford IP8 4JN. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 127 days, 11 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Bramford. We hold 519 applications in total for the IP8 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
IP8 4JN
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Bramford

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 November 2024
Consultation expiry
28 February 2025
Consultation start
10 February 2025
Consultation end
28 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
25 November 2024
Neighbour consultation end
16 December 2024
Last date for comments
28 February 2025
Target decision date
21 March 2025
Permission expires
27 March 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
120 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 December 2024
Advertisement expiry
25 December 2024
Site notice start
26 November 2024
Site notice end
17 December 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13573558
Documents
125
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Ancient woodland: Bullen WoodPart of the site
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

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    20 Nov

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