The Rookery Bury Road Wortham Diss Suffolk IP22 1RB
Approved on 16 June 2025
Council decision: Was LawfulDelegated (officer decision)
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) - Use of land for storage (Class B8) specifically the storage of shipping containers.
- Received
- 13 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Gislingham
- ReceivedReceived13 Mar
- ValidatedValidated13 Mar
- Consult.Consultation4 Apr
- TargetTarget Date27 Mar
- DecidedDecided16 Jun
Decided in 95 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at The Rookery Bury Road Wortham Diss Suffolk IP22 1RB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 95 days, 7 weeks longer 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 44 applications across Gislingham. We hold 1,538 applications in total for the IP22 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- IP22 1RB
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate Existing
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wortham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 4 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 4 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 4 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 March 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Swallow Barn Moseley's Farm Business Centre The Green Fornham All Saints IP33 1HP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 14 days
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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© 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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Planning history at this site
8 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202630 Apr
Full Planning Application (Retrospective) - Subdivision of four blocks of buildings to provide 7no…
PendingFull Planning ApplicationDC/26/01844 - 202320 Feb
Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a Proposed: Erection, Extension or Alteration of a…
ApprovedAgricultural DeterminationDC/23/00817 - 202015 Oct
Planning Application - Erection of an agricultural building.
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDC/20/04645 - 202029 Jul
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Erection, Extension or Alteration of a…
RefusedAgricultural DeterminationDC/20/03168 - 201930 Sep
Application for prior notification of agricultural or forestry development - proposed building. Town and…
RefusedAgricultural DeterminationDC/19/04565 - 200919 Aug
Installation of 25 metre high lattice telecommunications mast, 3no. antennae, 2no. 600mm transmission dish…
WithdrawnFull Planning Application2491/09 - 20072 Oct
Proposed agricultural building for the storage of grain.
ApprovedFull Planning Application3073/07 - 200527 Sep
Installation of 25 metre high lattice telecommunications mast, 3 No. antennae, 2 No. 600mm transmission dish…
ApprovedFull Planning Application1995/05
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