Land To The East Of Sudbury Road Cockfield Suffolk
Refused on 16 May 2025
Council decision: Was Not Lawful
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity including those in breach of a Planning Condition. Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - Confirmation that the existing lawful use of the site is agricultural.
- Received
- 23 January 2025
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Lavenham
- Agent
- Holmes & Hills LLP
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated24 Jan
- Consult.Consultation13 Feb
- TargetTarget Date7 Feb
- DecidedDecided16 May
Decided in 112 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Land To The East Of Sudbury Road Cockfield Suffolk. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 9 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 92 applications across Lavenham.
90% of amendment 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
- Lawful Development Certificate Existing
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Cockfield
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 January 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 February 2025
- Consultation start
- 23 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 28 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 February 2025
- Last date for comments
- 18 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 7 February 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Holmes & Hills LLP
- Agent address
- A12 Commercial Hub London Road Marks Tey CO6 1ED United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 14 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13709290
- Documents
- 25
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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