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Valley Farm Thorpe Green Lane Thorpe Morieux IP30 0PA

DC/26/00455Prior Approval Agricultural to DwellApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 March 2026

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)12 conditions

Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed Change of Use of Buildings on Agricultural Units and former Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (C3) which may include extension of the building and/or building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 as amended Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q. Change of use of agricultural building to form 3no dwellinghouses.

Received
4 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
North Cosford
Agent
Bidwells LLP
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided30 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Valley Farm Thorpe Green Lane Thorpe Morieux IP30 0PA. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across North Cosford. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 postcode area.

79% of outline 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
IP30 0PA
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwell
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thorpe Morieux

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2026
Consultation expiry
7 April 2026
Consultation start
17 March 2026
Consultation end
7 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
11 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
4 March 2026
Last date for comments
27 March 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026
Permission expires
30 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bidwells LLP
Agent address
Bidwells Bidwell House Trumpington Road Cambridge CB2 9LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 February 2026
Site notice end
17 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14651557
Documents
34
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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