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9 Hall Street Long Melford CO10 9JF

DC/26/00561Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 April 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Planning Application - Change of use and conversion of the ground floor commercial premises to residential use to form 1no dwellinghouse (Use Class C3), including minor associated internal and external alterations as per Design and Access Statement.

Received
11 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Long Melford
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 9 Hall Street Long Melford CO10 9JF. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 5,907 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Long Melford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 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
CO10 9JF
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Long Melford

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
17 February 2026
Consultation end
10 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
18 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
11 March 2026
Last date for comments
19 March 2026
Target decision date
26 March 2026
Permission expires
8 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
PlanFree
Agent address
PlanFree Willow House Bulmer Street Bulmer CO10 7EW

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
24 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
17 March 2026
Site notice start
26 February 2026
Site notice end
19 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14691221
Documents
13
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Long Melford
  • Listed building: Grade II: 7-9, Hall StreetOn this site · +2 more
  • 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, 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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    11 Feb

    Planning Application - Change of use and conversion of the ground floor commercial premises to residential…

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/26/00561
  2. 2026
    11 Feb

    Application for Listed Building Consent - Works for the conversion of the ground floor commercial premises to…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideDC/26/00562

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