Lodge Farm Church Road Westhorpe IP14 4TA IP14 4TA
Approved on 12 November 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions
Proposal
Full Planning Application - Change of use of former agricultural building to 6 no. storage units (B8) including the installation of doors and cladding.
- Received
- 19 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 8
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Bacton
- Agent
- Evolution Town Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived19 Sep
- ValidatedValidated22 Sep
- Consult.Consultation14 Oct
- TargetTarget Date3 Nov
- DecidedDecided12 Nov
Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Lodge Farm Church Road Westhorpe IP14 4TA IP14 4TA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 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 32 applications across Bacton. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 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
- IP14 4TA
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Westhorpe
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 28 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 23 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 14 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 25 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 28 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 12 November 2028
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
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 1 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 22 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 7 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 28 October 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14263461
- Documents
- 25
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (22)
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, 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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