2 High Street Needham Market Ipswich Suffolk IP6 8AP
Withdrawn on 9 January 2026
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Proposal
Full Planning Application - Change of use from office to 1no. dwelling, construction of an open fronted bin store to rear
- Received
- 1 October 2025
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Needham Market
- ReceivedReceived1 Oct
- ValidatedValidated2 Oct
- Consult.Consultation23 Oct
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided9 Jan
Decided in 99 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 2 High Street Needham Market Ipswich Suffolk IP6 8AP. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 100 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Needham Market conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Needham Market. We hold 627 applications in total for the IP6 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
- IP6 8AP
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Needham Market
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 6 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 23 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 3 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 24 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 7 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 9 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Whitworth Unit 12 Park Farm Fornham St. Genevieve Bury St. Edmunds IP28 6TS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 70 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 15 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 5 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 16 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 6 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14373179
- Documents
- 18
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Needham Market
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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, 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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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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