Ashfield Storage Lea Farm Haugh Lane Great Ashfield IP31 3HL
Approved on 5 February 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Planning Application for Extension to Existing Commercial Storage Business (Use Class B8) and Siting of Additional Storage Containers.
- Received
- 13 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Walsham-le-Willows
- ReceivedReceived13 Dec
- ValidatedValidated18 Dec
- Consult.Consultation13 Jan
- TargetTarget Date29 Jan
- DecidedDecided5 Feb
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at Ashfield Storage Lea Farm Haugh Lane Great Ashfield IP31 3HL. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
- IP31 3HL
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Ashfield
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 30 January 2025
- Consultation start
- 23 December 2024
- Consultation end
- 13 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 December 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 January 2025
- Last date for comments
- 30 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 29 January 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 February 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Savills (UK)
- Agent address
- Savills (UK) Parkview House Victoria Road South Chelmsford Essex CM1 1BT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 8 January 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 29 January 2025
- Site notice start
- 9 January 2025
- Site notice end
- 30 January 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12972316
- Documents
- 22
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
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.
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Associated applications
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Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/24/05417
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This applicationApprovedFullDC/24/05417
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