Willow Cottage The Street Walsham Le Willows Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3AA
Proposal
Application for Listed Building Consent - Works to the right hand side and rear of the cottage in order to improve drainage in the ground around the cottage. This will involve digging a new 'French' drain, removal of some hard render, damp proofing measures and re-rendering internally and externally. There will be no change to visible appearance of the Cottage, internally or externally. The works on the exterior are below ground level. This will reduce some recurring internal damp issues in one corner of one room in the cottage. That room is around 3 feet below ground level at the rear reducing to 1 foot below ground level at the side towards the front.
- Received
- 17 November 2025
- Decided
- 30 January 2026 · Granted
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Mid Suffolk District Council
- Ward
- Walsham-le-Willows
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- ReceivedSubmitted17 Nov
- ValidatedValidated25 Nov
- Consult.Consultation16 Dec
- TargetTarget Date30 Jan
- DecidedDecided30 Jan
Decided in 66 days (council typically 49)
This is a heritage application at Willow Cottage The Street Walsham Le Willows Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3AA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,753 applications of this type and approves 94% of them, typically deciding them in 61 days. This one was decided in 74 days, 13 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's median. The site is in the Walsham le Willows conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Walsham-le-Willows. We hold 1,687 applications in total for the IP31 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
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- Conservation area: Walsham le Willows
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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