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Lower House Farm Withermarsh Green Stoke By Nayland Colchester Suffolk CO6 4SY

DC/25/04986Householder Planning ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 3 February 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Householder Application - Conversion, alteration and extension of residential store

Received
11 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Bures St Mary & Nayland
Agent
Roger Balmer Design
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.12 Jan
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 75 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Lower House Farm Withermarsh Green Stoke By Nayland Colchester Suffolk CO6 4SY. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 5 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Bures St Mary & Nayland. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 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
CO6 4SY
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Stoke By Nayland

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2025
Consultation expiry
12 January 2026
Consultation start
22 December 2025
Consultation end
12 January 2026
Last date for comments
12 January 2026
Target decision date
27 January 2026
Permission expires
3 February 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Roger Balmer Design
Agent address
Fountain House Studio The Street East Bergholt Colchester CO7 6TB

Planning decision

Statutory period
68 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 December 2025
Advertisement expiry
23 December 2025
Site notice start
28 November 2025
Site notice end
19 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14299374
Documents
12
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Lower House FarmhouseOn this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale

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, conservation 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, 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

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    9 Nov

    Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/04987

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/26/04850

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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