10 Hall Street Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9JF
Approved on 7 October 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
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Proposal
Full Planning Application - Change of use of first floor from bedsit (Class C3) to use as ancillary storage for ground floor retail shop (Class E).
- Received
- 31 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Long Melford
- ReceivedReceived31 Jul
- ValidatedValidated13 Aug
- Consult.Consultation4 Sep
- TargetTarget Date24 Sep
- DecidedDecided7 Oct
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 10 Hall Street Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9JF. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 3 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Long Melford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 postcode area.
90% of full 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
- CO10 9JF
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Long Melford
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 4 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 14 August 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 3 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 24 September 2025
- Permission expires
- 7 October 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 26 August 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 16 September 2025
- Site notice start
- 12 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 3 October 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Long Melford
- Listed building: Grade II: South Part of Melford Galleries and Garage PremisesOn this site · +3 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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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