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Lower Farm The Tye Barking Ipswich Suffolk IP6 8JD

DC/25/01524Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 September 2025

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)14 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for conversion. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 as amended Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Conversion of Agricultural Barn to form 3no. dwellings

Received
31 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Battisford & Ringshall
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Aug
  4. Target5 Sep
  5. Decided5 Sep

Decided in 158 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Lower Farm The Tye Barking Ipswich Suffolk IP6 8JD. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 16 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Battisford & Ringshall. We hold 627 applications in total for the IP6 postcode area.

79% of outline 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
IP6 8JD
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Barking

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2025
Consultation expiry
23 August 2025
Consultation start
9 August 2025
Consultation end
23 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
1 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
22 April 2025
Last date for comments
23 August 2025
Target decision date
5 September 2025
Permission expires
5 September 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bidwell House Trumpington Road Cambridge CB2 9LD

Planning decision

Case officer
Nikita Goodrich
Statutory period
158 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 April 2025
Site notice end
6 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13884172
Documents
35
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (21)

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, 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.

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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