Hill Farm Grasshopper Lane Also Known As Huggins Lane Stoke Ash IP23 7ER
Approved on 12 August 2025
Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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 the conversion. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Change of use of agricultural barn to form 2no dwellings.
- Received
- 16 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Palgrave
- Agent
- Springfields Planning and Development Limited
- ReceivedReceived16 Jun
- ValidatedValidated17 Jun
- Consult.Consultation18 Jul
- TargetTarget Date29 Jul
- DecidedDecided12 Aug
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Hill Farm Grasshopper Lane Also Known As Huggins Lane Stoke Ash IP23 7ER. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 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 65 applications across Palgrave. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the IP23 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
- IP23 7ER
- Application type
- Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stoke Ash
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 5 August 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 18 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 5 August 2025
- Target decision date
- 29 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 12 August 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Springfields Planning and Development Limited
- Agent address
- Springfields Planning And Development Limited 15 Springfields Great Dunmow CM6 1BP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 15 July 2025
- Site notice end
- 5 August 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13999302
- Documents
- 23
- Constraints
- 3
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.
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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