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East Bergholt Place Mill Road East Bergholt Colchester Suffolk CO7 6UP

DC/25/03851Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 October 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Proposal

Full Planning Application - Change of Use from Specialist Plant Centre involving sales to the public with ancillary sales of refreshments Class E to a Horticultural Business, including Storage and Warehousing of Stock, Fulfilment of E-Commerce Orders, and associated Office Functions. - Class B8

Received
1 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
East Bergholt
  1. Received1 Sep
  2. Validated5 Sep
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target17 Oct
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at East Bergholt Place Mill Road East Bergholt Colchester Suffolk CO7 6UP. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across East Bergholt. 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 6UP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
East Bergholt

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 September 2025
Consultation expiry
15 October 2025
Consultation start
10 September 2025
Consultation end
1 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 September 2025
Neighbour consultation end
1 October 2025
Last date for comments
15 October 2025
Target decision date
17 October 2025
Permission expires
30 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
7 October 2025
Site notice start
24 September 2025
Site notice end
15 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14294623
Documents
16
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
  • 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, 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, 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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