Arqiva Transmitting Station Wherstead Park The Street Wherstead Suffolk
Approved on 17 February 2026
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Development by a Statutory Undertaker - The removal of 6no. antennas, 6no. antennas to be installed, 1no. GPS to be installed, 1no. cabinet to be reused, and ancillary upgrades thereto to the existing lattice structure.
- Received
- 26 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Orwell
- ReceivedReceived26 Jan
- ValidatedValidated26 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date23 Feb
- DecidedDecided17 Feb
Decided in 22 days
About this application
This is a planning application at Arqiva Transmitting Station Wherstead Park The Street Wherstead Suffolk. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 15,395 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 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 33 applications across Orwell.
Application details
- Application type
- Development by statutory undertaker
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wherstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 23 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 17 February 2031
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Additional information
- Comments
- 0
- Documents
- 0
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
- 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 (20)
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, 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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