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Lowe Hill House Higham Road Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JX

DC/26/03412Permitted
Discharge / amendments

Proposal

Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/03801 - Condition 5 (Dark Skies Mitigation) Discharge of condition 5: Please see attached proposed supporting documents containing specifications for the proposed blind systems.

Received
10 August 2026
Decided
13 August 2026 · Granted
Ward
Brett Vale
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.
  1. Received10 Aug
  2. Validated10 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 3 days

This is a planning application at Lowe Hill House Higham Road Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JX. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 15,141 applications of this type and approves 91% of them, typically deciding them in 55 days. This one was decided in 3 days, 7 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's median. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,538 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

Application Details

Reference
DC/26/03412
Address
Lowe Hill House Higham Road Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JX
Postcode
CO7 6JX
Local Authority
Babergh Mid Suffolk
Decision Status
Permitted
Ward
Brett Vale
Parish
Stratford St Mary

Applicant & Agent

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
10 August 2026
Date Decided
13 August 2026
Date Validated
10 August 2026
Date Submitted
10 August 2026

Planning Decision

Decision
Granted
Case Officer
Adam Lockwood

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Coordinates
51.976097, 0.972483
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    10 Aug

    Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/03801

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsDC/26/03412
  2. 2025
    27 Aug

    Householder Application - Construction of two summerhouses within the large garden of Lowe Hill House.

    ApprovedHouseholderPart ofDC/25/03801

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

Planning constraints

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II*: Lowe Hill HouseOn this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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 2026-10-09. 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.

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