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White Street Barn White Street Green Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO10 5JL

DC/26/00133Householder Planning ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Householder Application - Erection of a single-storey rear extension to form new Garden Room.

Received
14 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Embrace Architecture Ltd
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 96 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at White Street Barn White Street Green Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO10 5JL. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 7 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. 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 5JL
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2026
Consultation expiry
7 April 2026
Consultation start
24 March 2026
Consultation end
7 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
19 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
9 February 2026
Last date for comments
7 April 2026
Target decision date
16 April 2026
Permission expires
22 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Embrace Architecture Ltd
Architect profile
EMBRACE ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
6 The Granary Hadleigh Suffolk IP7 5TJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 February 2026
Site notice end
23 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14622282
Documents
12
Constraints
9

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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