First Floor Flat (The Beauty Rooms) 13 Meadows Way Hadleigh Ipswich Suffolk IP7 5DX
Approved on 8 January 2026
Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions
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Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA - Change of use of premises from beauty salon to form 1no. dwelling.
- Received
- 1 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Hadleigh South
- ReceivedReceived1 Dec
- ValidatedValidated3 Dec
- Consult.Consultation24 Dec
- TargetTarget Date14 Jan
- DecidedDecided8 Jan
Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at First Floor Flat (The Beauty Rooms) 13 Meadows Way Hadleigh Ipswich Suffolk IP7 5DX. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Hadleigh conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Hadleigh South. We hold 480 applications in total for the IP7 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
- IP7 5DX
- Application type
- Prior Approval Commercial to dwelling
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hadleigh
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 2 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 3 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 24 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 5 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 2 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 14 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 8 January 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Grange Business Centre Tommy Flowers Drive Grange Farm Kesgrave Ipswich Suffolk IP5 2BY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 12 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 2 January 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Hadleigh
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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, 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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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