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Barn 4 At Hall Farm Barns Church Lane Stonham Parva Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5JL

DC/25/05586Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 February 2026

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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 former agricultural Barn to two dwellings

Received
22 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Stonham
Agent
Hollins Architects & Surveyors
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target3 Feb
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barn 4 At Hall Farm Barns Church Lane Stonham Parva Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5JL. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Stonham. We hold 1,278 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 5JL
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stonham Parva

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2025
Consultation expiry
12 February 2026
Consultation start
21 January 2026
Consultation end
4 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
30 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
20 January 2026
Last date for comments
12 February 2026
Target decision date
3 February 2026
Permission expires
17 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hollins Architects & Surveyors
Agent address
The Guildhall Market Hill Framlingham Woodbridge IP13 9BD United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 January 2026
Site notice end
12 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14585188
Documents
32
Constraints
2

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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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