12 Sandpit Lane Thurston Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3SD
Approved on 23 January 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions
Proposal
Householder Application - Erection of a rear and side extension and addition of solar panels
- Received
- 11 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Thurston
- Agent
- TAB Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived11 Nov
- ValidatedValidated27 Nov
- Consult.Consultation18 Dec
- TargetTarget Date19 Jan
- DecidedDecided23 Jan
Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a side extension at 12 Sandpit Lane Thurston Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3SD. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 118 applications across Thurston. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
- IP31 3SD
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Thurston
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 31 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 4 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 18 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 27 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 31 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 19 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 23 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- TAB Architecture Ltd
- Architect profile
- TAB ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
- Agent address
- Unit 13 E-Space South 26 St Thomas Place Ely CB7 4EX United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 53 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 10 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 31 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14477068
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (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.
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© 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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Associated applications
- 202630 Jun
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/04996
PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/26/02793 - 202511 Nov
Householder Application - Erection of a rear and side extension and addition of solar panels
This applicationApprovedFullDC/25/04996
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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