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Green Oak Farm Stonham Road Mickfield Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5LS

DC/25/03605Lawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 22 September 2025

Council decision: Was LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity, including those in breach of a planning condition Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - Confirmation sought that development permitted under application DC/23/04545 and Listed Building Consent DC/23/04546 has commenced as detailed in covering letter/documents submitted with application

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Stonham
Agent
Evolution Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.5 Sep
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided22 Sep

Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Green Oak Farm Stonham Road Mickfield Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5LS. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Stonham. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.

90% of amendment 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
IP14 5LS
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mickfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2025
Consultation expiry
8 September 2025
Consultation start
15 August 2025
Consultation end
5 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
18 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end
8 September 2025
Last date for comments
8 September 2025
Target decision date
28 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Evolution Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
Evolution Town Planning Ltd Opus House Elm Farm Park Thurston Bury St Edmunds IP31 3SH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14177873
Documents
10
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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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