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Reading Rooms Rectory Road Sotterley Suffolk

DC/12/0311/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 May 2012

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use from Reading Rooms to Artists Studio, including demolition of existing rear flat roof section and side structure, and replacement with smaller rear extension, alterations to windows and creation of a car parking space and vehicle access

Received
16 March 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Bungay And Wainford
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated27 Mar
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Reading Rooms Rectory Road Sotterley Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 512 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Bungay And Wainford.

92% of amendment applications at East Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sotterley

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 March 2012
Consultation expiry
1 May 2012
Consultation start
2 April 2012
Consultation end
22 April 2012
Last date for comments
1 May 2012
Target decision date
21 May 2012
Decision issued
10 May 2012
Permission expires
10 May 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 April 2012
Site notice end
1 May 2012

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: East Suffolk

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