Elmsett Airfield Whatfield Road Elmsett Ipswich Suffolk IP7 6LN
Approved on 20 March 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/04224 - Condition 4 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy) and 5 (Wildlife Sensitive Lighting Design Scheme)
- Received
- 19 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- South East Cosford
- Agent
- Complete Land Management Ltd
- ReceivedReceived19 Jan
- ValidatedValidated20 Jan
- Consult.Consultation17 Mar
- TargetTarget Date3 Mar
- DecidedDecided20 Mar
Decided in 59 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Elmsett Airfield Whatfield Road Elmsett Ipswich Suffolk IP7 6LN. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 2,320 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across South East Cosford. We hold 480 applications in total for the IP7 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
- IP7 6LN
- Application type
- Discharge of Condition(s)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Elmsett
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 17 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 3 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 17 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 17 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 3 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 20 March 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Complete Land Management Ltd
- Agent address
- Sackville House Sackville Lane Hartfield Tunbridge Wells TN7 4AW United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14634568
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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