Clapper Farm House Flatford Lane East Bergholt Colchester Suffolk CO7 6UN
Approved on 30 October 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition
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Proposal
Householder Application - Retention of a Bio-Pure 3 packaged sewage treatment plant (Following removal of previous septic tank foul drainage system)
- Received
- 17 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- East Bergholt
- ReceivedReceived17 Sep
- ValidatedValidated17 Sep
- Consult.Consultation17 Oct
- TargetTarget Date29 Oct
- DecidedDecided30 Oct
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Clapper Farm House Flatford Lane East Bergholt Colchester Suffolk CO7 6UN. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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 6UN
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- East Bergholt
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 28 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 18 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 9 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 28 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 29 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 30 October 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 7 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 28 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 26 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 17 October 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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