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The Old School School Lane Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6LZ

DC/25/04791Non Material AmendmentRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 25 November 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Non-Material Amendment relating to DC/24/02317 - Amendments to the School Square to improve vehicle and pedestrian safety and provide a fully accessible and compliant main entrance, including ramp and canopy; Reconfiguration of car and PTW parking and addition of 3no. spaces for school minibuses; Relocation of the MUGA to provide a regular sized and proportioned facility; Bin store relocated away from UKPN transformed to improve safety, size reduced; Amendments to boundary and security fencing to ensure pupil safeguarding; Planting plan and hard landscape plan updated accordingly, additional areas of soft planting introduced and new tree planting; Ecological reports and BNG metric updated, proposed changes achieve 10.68%BNG for habitats and 11.94% BNG for hedgerows; Adjustments to windows to improve thermal performance, ensure pupil safety and in response to internal layout alterations

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brett Vale
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Old School School Lane Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6LZ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,580 applications in total for the CO7 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
CO7 6LZ
Application type
Non Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stratford St Mary

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Consultation expiry
4 December 2025
Consultation start
13 November 2025
Consultation end
4 December 2025
Last date for comments
24 November 2025
Target decision date
25 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
24 Finsbury Business Centre London EC1R 0NE United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14392714
Comments
0
Documents
17
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
  • 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 (21)

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, 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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