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Barn 2 Adjacent To Lavender Barn Fenstead End Boxted Suffolk

DC/26/03033Approved
Prior approval

Approved on 16 September 2026

Council decision: Formal Approval IS required - Approved17 conditions

Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for conversion. Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 as amended Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q - Conversion of Barn to create 1 dwellinghouse, together with the provision of 2 parking spaces and external amenity space.

Received
15 July 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 7 October 2026
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.7 Aug
  4. Target17 Sep
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 62 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Barn 2 Adjacent To Lavender Barn Fenstead End Boxted Suffolk. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 15,395 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.

Application details

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2026
Consultation end
7 August 2026
Target decision date
17 September 2026

Additional information

Documents
18

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 2: Medium 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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