Barn At Ashes Farm Oak Farm Lane Mendlesham IP14 5TE
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Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3), and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Conversion into 3no residential dwellings.
- Received
- 18 November 2025
- Decision due
- 3 March 2026
- Public comments
- 7
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Mendlesham
- Agent
- Ayan Studios Ltd
- ReceivedReceived18 Nov
- ValidatedValidated18 Nov
- Consult.Consultation4 Mar
- TargetTarget Date3 Mar
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Barn At Ashes Farm Oak Farm Lane Mendlesham IP14 5TE. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 18 November 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Mendlesham. We hold 1,277 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.
79% of outline 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
- IP14 5TE
- Application type
- Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Mendlesham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 18 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 4 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 15 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 4 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ayan Studios Ltd
- Architect profile
- AYAN STUDIOS LTD
- Agent address
- Ayan Studios Ltd 82A James Carter Road Mildenhall IP28 7DE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 105 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 3 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 24 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14493418
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 12
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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