Land Adjacent To Mark Wood Farm Off Stoke Road Polstead
Approved on 6 February 2026
Council decision: Formal Approval NOT ReqdDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a Proposed: Erection, Extension or Alteration of a building for Agricultural or Forestry Use. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended Schedule 2, Part 6. Erection of steel portal framed building, with a cement fibre roof clad in weatherboard.
- Received
- 19 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived19 Jan
- ValidatedValidated19 Jan
- Consult.Consultation28 Jan
- TargetTarget Date16 Feb
- DecidedDecided6 Feb
Decided in 18 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a planning application for an extension at Land Adjacent To Mark Wood Farm Off Stoke Road Polstead. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 220 applications of this type. This one was decided in 18 days, 4 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 70 applications across Brett Vale.
94% of all 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
- Application type
- Agricultural Determination
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Polstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 28 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 21 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 28 January 2026
- Last date for comments
- 28 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 16 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 6 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- C B Mckenna
- Agent address
- C B Mckenna Lawn Farm Upper Tye Gt Cornard Sudbury CO10 0QA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14632185
- Documents
- 7
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
- 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, 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, 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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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