Home Farm The Common Mellis IP23 8EE
Approved on 8 December 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions
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Proposal
Planning Application. Change of use of land to residential garden land
- Received
- 10 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Gislingham
- Agent
- Hollins Architects & Surveyors
- ReceivedReceived10 Oct
- ValidatedValidated13 Oct
- Consult.Consultation4 Nov
- TargetTarget Date24 Nov
- DecidedDecided8 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Home Farm The Common Mellis IP23 8EE. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Mellis conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Gislingham. We hold 1,283 applications in total for the IP23 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
- IP23 8EE
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Mellis
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 20 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 4 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 20 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 24 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 8 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hollins Architects & Surveyors
- Agent address
- The Guildhall Market Hill Framlingham Woodbridge IP13 9BD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 30 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 20 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14388120
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: MellisPart of the site
- 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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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