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Lawrence House Magdalen Street Eye Suffolk IP23 7AJ

DC/26/00824Prior Approval CoU Commercial to Mixed UApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E), or betting office or pay day loan shop to mixed use including up to two flats (Use Class C3) Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class G - Conversion of first floor to 1 No. flat

Received
23 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Eye
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.24 Mar
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Lawrence House Magdalen Street Eye Suffolk IP23 7AJ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 9 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Eye conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Eye. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the IP23 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
IP23 7AJ
Application type
Prior Approval CoU Commercial to Mixed U
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Eye

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2026
Consultation expiry
2 April 2026
Consultation start
3 March 2026
Consultation end
24 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
4 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
25 March 2026
Last date for comments
2 April 2026
Target decision date
14 April 2026
Permission expires
22 April 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bellrope View Rectory Road Shelfanger Diss Norfolk IP22 2DQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 March 2026
Site notice end
2 April 2026

Additional information

Documents
15
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Eye
  • Listed building: Grade II: Magdalen HouseOn or next to 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

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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