2 Shelley Priory Cottages Stoke Road Shelley Ipswich Suffolk IP7 5RQ
Approved on 12 February 2026
Council decision: Was LawfulLegal
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity including those in breach of a Planning Condition. Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - This application seeks to establish existing residential use .
- Received
- 17 November 2025
- Decision level
- Legal
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived17 Nov
- ValidatedValidated18 Nov
- Consult.Consultation10 Dec
- TargetTarget Date2 Dec
- DecidedDecided12 Feb
Decided in 86 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 2 Shelley Priory Cottages Stoke Road Shelley Ipswich Suffolk IP7 5RQ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 5 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 480 applications in total for the IP7 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
- IP7 5RQ
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate Existing
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shelley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 12 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 19 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 10 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 21 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 12 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 December 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 14 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14492198
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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