Westhorpe Hall The Street Westhorpe Stowmarket IP14 4SS
Approved on 1 April 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Full Planning Application - Change of use from care home (Use Class C2) to dwelling-house (Use Class C3).
- Received
- 5 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 9
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Bacton
- Agent
- Evolution Town Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated6 Feb
- Consult.Consultation3 Mar
- TargetTarget Date20 Mar
- DecidedDecided1 Apr
Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Westhorpe Hall The Street Westhorpe Stowmarket IP14 4SS. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Bacton. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 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
- IP14 4SS
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Westhorpe
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 12 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 10 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 February 2025
- Last date for comments
- 12 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 20 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 1 April 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Evolution Town Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- Opus House Elm Farm Park Thurston Bury St Edmunds IP31 3SH United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 19 February 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 March 2025
- Site notice start
- 17 February 2025
- Site notice end
- 10 March 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13720125
- Documents
- 23
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Listed building: Grade II: Barn Aboout 80 Metres West North West of Westhorpe HallOn this site · +1 more
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 (20)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, 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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- Evolution Town Planning Limited · Agent for this application
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