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Street Farm Polstead Hill Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AH

DC/26/00254Non Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: Granted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Non-Material Amendment relating to DC/23/04330 - Amendments to the parking layout, removing the cartlodge from use as car parking. Two bays of the cartlodge will be fitted with doors to create a secure cycle store. - Alteration to the rear retaining wall. - Adjustment to the position of the front brick garden wall to accommodate the revised parking layout. - Revisions to the site plan and levels to reflect the updated parking arrangements and changes to the retaining wall. - Internal alterations, to include the addition of a cupboard beneath the staircase and modifications to the staircase design to suit the amended proposed first-floor height. - Changes to the fenestration, reducing the height of the first-floor front windows.

Received
22 January 2026
Ward
Brett Vale
Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Street Farm Polstead Hill Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AH. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 549 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 8 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 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.

90% of amendment 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
CO6 5AH
Application type
Non Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026
Target decision date
13 March 2026
Permission expires
20 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Wincer Kievenaar Architects Ltd
Architect profile
WINCER KIEVENAAR ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Atelier House Magdalen Road Hadleigh IP7 5AD

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14629135
Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Polstead
  • Listed building: Grade II: Corder'S HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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 (19)

flood storage 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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© 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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    27 May

    Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/26/00255

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/26/02229

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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