Rose Farm The Street Metfield Harleston Suffolk IP20 0LA
Approved on 16 January 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions
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Proposal
Full Planning Application - Change of use of annexe/holiday let to 1no. permanent residential dwelling (retrospective)
- Received
- 23 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Fressingfield
- ReceivedReceived23 Oct
- ValidatedValidated24 Oct
- Consult.Consultation25 Nov
- TargetTarget Date5 Dec
- DecidedDecided16 Jan
Decided in 84 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Rose Farm The Street Metfield Harleston Suffolk IP20 0LA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 5 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Fressingfield. We hold 339 applications in total for the IP20 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
- IP20 0LA
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Metfield
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 26 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 4 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 19 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 26 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 5 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Pump Hill House 2b Market Street Diss IP22 4JZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 5 November 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 26 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 29 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 19 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14426282
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: MetfieldPart 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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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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