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Loke Farm Wood Road Woolpit IP30 9RR

DC/25/03119Prior Approval DemolitionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 October 2025

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Demolition of 4no Buildings and partial demolition of 1No building) - Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Sch 2, Part 11, Class B

Received
11 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Elmswell & Woolpit
  1. Received11 Jul
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.24 Sep
  4. Target7 Oct
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Loke Farm Wood Road Woolpit IP30 9RR. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 89 days, 6 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Elmswell & Woolpit. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 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
IP30 9RR
Application type
Prior Approval Demolition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woolpit

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2025
Consultation expiry
24 September 2025
Consultation start
17 September 2025
Consultation end
24 September 2025
Last date for comments
24 September 2025
Target decision date
7 October 2025
Permission expires
8 October 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Market Office 10 Risbygate Street Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3AA

Planning decision

Statutory period
50 days

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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