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The Old Rectory Rectory Hill Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AE

DC/25/01000Householder Planning ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 16 April 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Householder Application - Alterations to the existing dressing area to the sauna in the pool house, provision of an outdoor kitchen and pergola, and the erection of single storey ancillary home office outbuilding.

Received
5 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Maple Planning & Development Ltd
  1. Received5 Mar
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.28 Mar
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at The Old Rectory Rectory Hill Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AE. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 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
CO6 5AE
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2025
Consultation expiry
8 April 2025
Consultation start
7 March 2025
Consultation end
28 March 2025
Last date for comments
8 April 2025
Target decision date
17 April 2025
Permission expires
16 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Maple Planning & Development Ltd
Agent address
PO Box 573 Tunbridge Wells TN2 9WF

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 March 2025
Advertisement expiry
8 April 2025
Site notice start
7 March 2025
Site notice end
28 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13827719
Documents
21
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Listed building: Grade II: The RectoryOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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.

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.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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