The Queens Head Queens Road Erwarton Ipswich Suffolk IP9 1LN

DC/25/03236Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 12 September 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application for Listed Building Consent - Internal changes to the ground floor and first floor of the property. Removing some modern stud walls, changing the location of a number of doorways, removing the kitchen on the first floor of the property, and opening up a covered over heritage fireplace.

Received: 20 July 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Babergh District Council
Ward: Ganges

ReceivedReceived20 Jul
ValidatedValidated21 Jul
Consult.Consultation13 Aug
TargetTarget Date1 Sep
DecidedDecided12 Sep

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Queens Head Queens Road Erwarton Ipswich Suffolk IP9 1LN. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Ganges. We hold 834 applications in total for the IP9 postcode area.

96% of heritage 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: IP9 1LN
Application type: Listed Building Consent
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Erwarton

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 July 2025
Consultation expiry: 22 August 2025
Consultation start: 23 July 2025
Consultation end: 13 August 2025
Last date for comments: 22 August 2025
Target decision date: 1 September 2025
Permission expires: 12 September 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 29 July 2025
Advertisement expiry: 19 August 2025
Site notice start: 1 August 2025
Site notice end: 22 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14190553
Comments: 0
Documents: 11
Constraints: 3

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Listed building: Grade II: Queens HouseOn this site
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 (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.

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Associated applications

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This applicationApprovedListed building consentDC/25/03236

Planning history at this site

8 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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