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Hadleigh High School Highlands Road Hadleigh Ipswich Suffolk IP7 5HU

DC/26/00385Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 3 July 2026

Council decision: Granted29 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Full Planning Application - Demolition of Existing Teaching and Sports Blocks and Their Replacement With a New Teaching Block, Sports Hall and Multi-use Game Areas, Plus External Works Including Installation of Ground Source Heat Pumps, Hard and Soft Landscaping, Car Parking And Boundary Treatment

Received
30 January 2026
Public comments
38
Ward
Hadleigh South
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Apr
  4. Target3 Jul
  5. Decided3 Jul

Decided in 148 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Hadleigh High School Highlands Road Hadleigh Ipswich Suffolk IP7 5HU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 154 days, 15 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Hadleigh South. We hold 480 applications in total for the IP7 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
IP7 5HU
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Hadleigh

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2026
Consultation expiry
27 April 2026
Consultation start
13 April 2026
Consultation end
27 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
10 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
3 March 2026
Last date for comments
27 April 2026
Target decision date
3 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
WSP House 70 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1AF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
10 March 2026
Site notice start
13 February 2026
Site notice end
6 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
120
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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