Giffords Lower Street Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JS
Approved on 10 October 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions
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Proposal
Householder Application - Erection of a garden room/ seating area. Replacement of 2 No. Windows with 1 No window on rear elevation.
- Received
- 1 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated8 Sep
- Consult.Consultation30 Sep
- TargetTarget Date20 Oct
- DecidedDecided10 Oct
Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Giffords Lower Street Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JS. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Stratford St Mary conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,580 applications in total for the CO7 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
- CO7 6JS
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stratford St Mary
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 9 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 9 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 30 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 9 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 20 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 10 October 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- The Gattinetts Hadleigh Road East Bergholt Colchester Suffolk CO7 6QT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 16 September 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 18 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 9 October 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
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, 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, 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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