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The Poultry Farm Brent Eleigh Road Lavenham Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9PE

DC/25/04498Change of Use Permitted DevelopmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 October 2025

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Class R - Change of use from agriculture to flexible use including agile meeting, coworking spaces, and a cafe. (7 day response)

Received
8 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lavenham
Agent
Optimum Architecture
  1. Received8 Oct
  2. Validated8 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Oct
  5. Decided14 Oct

Decided in 6 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Poultry Farm Brent Eleigh Road Lavenham Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9PE. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 6 days, 6 weeks 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 92 applications across Lavenham. We hold 3,166 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 9PE
Application type
Change of Use Permitted Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lavenham

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 October 2025
Target decision date
13 October 2025
Permission expires
14 October 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Optimum Architecture
Agent address
Optimum Architecture Nags Corner Nayland, Colchester CO6 4LT

Planning decision

Statutory period
5 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High 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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