Groton Farm House Church Street Groton CO10 5EH
Approved on 17 December 2025
Council decision: Was LawfulLegal
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). Continued use of caravan as residential dwelling.
- Received
- 29 September 2025
- Decision level
- Legal
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Box Vale
- ReceivedReceived29 Sep
- ValidatedValidated30 Sep
- Consult.Consultation22 Oct
- TargetTarget Date14 Oct
- DecidedDecided17 Dec
Decided in 78 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Groton Farm House Church Street Groton CO10 5EH. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 4 weeks 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 58 applications across Box Vale. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 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
- CO10 5EH
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate Existing
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Groton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 23 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 1 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 22 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 23 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 14 October 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 14 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14367178
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 5
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.
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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