Rookery Meade Farm Beyton Road Drinkstone IP30 9SS
Approved on 27 March 2026
Council decision: Formal Approval NOT ReqdDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Erection, Extension or Alteration of a Building for Agricultural or Forestry use The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 6. Erection of agricultural barn for grain storage
- Received
- 5 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Rattlesden
- Agent
- James Bailey Planning Ltd.
- ReceivedReceived5 Mar
- ValidatedValidated5 Mar
- Consult.Consultation18 Mar
- TargetTarget Date2 Apr
- DecidedDecided27 Mar
Decided in 22 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a planning application for an extension at Rookery Meade Farm Beyton Road Drinkstone IP30 9SS. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 220 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 57 applications across Rattlesden. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 postcode area.
94% of all 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 9SS
- Application type
- Agricultural Determination
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Drinkstone
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 18 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 11 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 18 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 18 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 2 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 27 March 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- James Bailey Planning Ltd.
- Agent address
- James Bailey Planning Ltd Stirling House 3 Abbeyfields Bury St Edmunds IP33 3AQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14754131
- Documents
- 7
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
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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