Thurston Community College Norton Road Thurston IP31 3PB
Approved on 12 February 2026
Council decision: EIA not required
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Proposal
Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017. Redevelopment of Thurston Community College
- Received
- 12 January 2026
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Thurston
- ReceivedReceived12 Jan
- ValidatedValidated12 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date2 Feb
- DecidedDecided12 Feb
Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Thurston Community College Norton Road Thurston IP31 3PB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 118 applications across Thurston. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
- IP31 3PB
- Application type
- Screening Opinion (EIA)
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Thurston
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 2 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 12 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- WSP WSP House London WC2A 1AF 70 Chancery Lane
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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