The Food Museum Crowe Street Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1DL
Approved on 23 February 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/00042 - Conditions - 4 (Bat Licence), 5 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy) and 8 (External Facing Materials)
- Received
- 9 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- St Peter's
- Agent
- Modece Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived9 Jan
- ValidatedValidated9 Jan
- Consult.Consultation20 Feb
- TargetTarget Date20 Feb
- DecidedDecided23 Feb
Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at The Food Museum Crowe Street Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1DL. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 2,320 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Stowmarket conservation area. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across St Peter's. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.
95% of conditions 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 1DL
- Application type
- Discharge of Condition(s)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stowmarket
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 20 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 6 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 20 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 20 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 23 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Modece Architects Ltd
- Architect profile
- MODECE ARCHITECTS LTD
- Agent address
- Unit 4, The Old Fox Yard Ipswich Street Stowmarket IP14 1AB United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14611525
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Stowmarket
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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
- 202615 Jan
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/24/05541
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongsideDC/26/00156 - 20269 Jan
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/00042
This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsDC/26/00089
Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202613 Mar
Discharge of Condition Application for DC/25/05314
PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/26/01104 - 202623 Feb
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/05314
PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/26/00763 - 20253 Dec
Full Planning Application - Construction of play area.
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDC/25/05314 - 20242 Oct
Application for a Non Material Amendment relating to DC/23/03780
ApprovedNon-material amendmentDC/24/04370
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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