Bartrums Road Services Ltd Brome Industrial Park Airfield Industrial Estate Brome And Oakley Eye Suffolk IP23 7HN
Approved on 9 June 2026
Council decision: Formal Approval NOT Reqd
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Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Installation of other Solar Photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the Roofs on Non-domestic Buildings. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 14, Class J - Installation of 153kW solar PV on the Bartrums Trumbar building.
- Received
- 14 April 2026
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Eye
- ReceivedReceived14 Apr
- ValidatedValidated17 Apr
- Consult.Consultation19 Jun
- TargetTarget Date29 May
- DecidedDecided9 Jun
Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Bartrums Road Services Ltd Brome Industrial Park Airfield Industrial Estate Brome And Oakley Eye Suffolk IP23 7HN. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 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 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 7HN
- Application type
- Prior Approval Solar Install NonDomestic
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Eye
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 April 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 8 May 2026
- Consultation start
- 17 April 2026
- Consultation end
- 19 June 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 April 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 May 2026
- Last date for comments
- 8 May 2026
- Target decision date
- 29 May 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- West Suffolk House Western Way Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3YU United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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
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Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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