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Lawrence House Magdalen Street Eye IP23 7AJ

DC/25/03063Prior Approval CoU Commercial to DwlngApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 October 2025

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2 Part3 Class MA - Part conversion of existing commercial building to form 4no new residential flats. (Including retention of existing ground floor commercial / retail space).

Received
8 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Eye
Agent
KFD Architecture
  1. Received8 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.16 Sep
  4. Target3 Oct
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 78 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Lawrence House Magdalen Street Eye IP23 7AJ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 6 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Eye conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Eye. 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 7AJ
Application type
Prior Approval CoU Commercial to Dwlng
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Eye

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2025
Consultation expiry
16 September 2025
Consultation start
2 September 2025
Consultation end
16 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
29 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
19 August 2025
Last date for comments
16 September 2025
Target decision date
3 October 2025
Permission expires
10 October 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
KFD Architecture
Architect profile
KFD ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
KFD Architecture Bellrope View Rectory Road Shelfanger IP22 2DQ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
71 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 August 2025
Site notice end
26 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14080579
Documents
24
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Eye
  • Listed building: Grade II: Magdalen HouseOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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, 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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