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Cafe Old Joe's Driving Range Joes Road Great Cornard Sudbury Suffolk CO10 0QB

DC/26/00069Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 March 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)11 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Full Planning Application - Erection of 2 Padel courts

Received
8 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Great Cornard
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.18 Feb
  4. Target20 Feb
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Cafe Old Joe's Driving Range Joes Road Great Cornard Sudbury Suffolk CO10 0QB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Great Cornard. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 postcode area.

90% of full 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
CO10 0QB
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Cornard

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2026
Consultation expiry
18 February 2026
Consultation start
4 February 2026
Consultation end
18 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
14 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
4 February 2026
Last date for comments
18 February 2026
Target decision date
20 February 2026
Permission expires
6 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
PlanFree
Agent address
PlanFree Willow House Bulmer Street Bulmer CO10 7EW

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 January 2026
Advertisement expiry
10 February 2026
Site notice start
23 January 2026
Site notice end
13 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14606836
Documents
23
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    27 Mar

    Application under Section 73 of The Town and Country Planning Act - Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans…

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)DC/26/01320
  2. 2026
    8 Jan

    Full Planning Application - Erection of 2 Padel courts

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/26/00069

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