Land At 4 Park Farm Cottages, Vicarage Lane, Wherstead, Suffolk, IP9 2AG
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Proposal
Application for Outline Planning Permission (Access to be considered, all other matters reserved) Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - Erection of up to 3 no. dwellings [with access]
- Received
- 18 March 2026
- Decision due
- 30 April 2026
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Orwell
- Agent
- Wilkinson Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived18 Mar
- ValidatedValidated19 Mar
- Consult.Consultation15 Apr
- TargetTarget Date30 Apr
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is an outline application at Land At 4 Park Farm Cottages, Vicarage Lane, Wherstead, Suffolk, IP9 2AG. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 18 March 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Orwell. We hold 834 applications in total for the IP9 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
- IP9 2AG
- Application type
- Outline Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wherstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 21 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 25 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 15 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 21 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Wilkinson Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- Wilkinson Planning Ltd Bury Lodge Bury Road Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1JA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 31 March 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 21 April 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
- 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 (21)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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