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Mount Pleasant Farm Bildeston Road Offton IP8 4RP

DC/25/05448Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellAwaiting decision
Outline / PiP
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for conversion. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q. Conversion of 2no barns to 3no dwellings.

Received
12 December 2025
Decision due
3 April 2026
Public comments
5
Ward
Battisford & Ringshall
Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
  1. Received12 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target3 Apr
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Mount Pleasant Farm Bildeston Road Offton IP8 4RP. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 12 December 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Battisford & Ringshall. We hold 519 applications in total for the IP8 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
IP8 4RP
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Offton

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2025
Consultation expiry
4 February 2026
Consultation start
21 January 2026
Consultation end
4 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
18 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
8 January 2026
Last date for comments
4 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
Architect profile
WINCER KIEVENAAR ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd Atelier House Magdalen Road Hadleigh IP7 5AD

Planning decision

Statutory period
109 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 December 2025
Site notice end
9 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14494674
Documents
22
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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