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Land To South East Of Grove Farmhouse Grove Lane Ashfield Cum Thorpe Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6LZ

DC/26/02196Awaiting decision
Lawful development certificate
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity including those in breach of a Planning Condition. Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - Retention of use Land as residential garden land - The Land in question in this application has been garden for at least several decades. Evidence includes a statement by the person who maintained the garden for 25 plus years and photographic evidence of land use from Google Earth over the last 26 years. This is clearly shows the pond and trees and boundary of the garden at Grove Farmhouse.

Submitted
26 May 2026
  1. Received26 May
  2. Validated26 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a planning application at Land To South East Of Grove Farmhouse Grove Lane Ashfield Cum Thorpe Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 6LZ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 15,395 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 26 May 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
IP14 6LZ

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 May 2026

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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