Juniper House Flatts Lane Tostock Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 9NZ
Approved on 23 September 2025
Council decision: Was LawfulLegal
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed Use or Development Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - Installation of 14 solar panels on the roof facing the road on a residential dwelling, which is in a conservation area in Tostock.
- Received
- 4 August 2025
- Decision level
- Legal
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Thurston
- ReceivedReceived4 Aug
- ValidatedValidated5 Aug
- Consult.Consultation29 Aug
- TargetTarget Date31 Oct
- DecidedDecided23 Sep
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Juniper House Flatts Lane Tostock Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 9NZ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Tostock conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 118 applications across Thurston. 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 9NZ
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Tostock
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 August 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 29 August 2025
- Target decision date
- 31 October 2025
- Decision issued
- 30 September 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 87 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14227580
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Tostock
- 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, 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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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