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43 High Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1AJ

DC/14/0225/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 13 March 2014

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of Office (A2) to Fish and Chip Shop (A5).

Received
22 January 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Saxmundham
Agent
Jeremy Hancock & Associates
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.21 Feb
  4. Target18 Mar
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 43 High Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1AJ. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Saxmundham conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Saxmundham. We hold 1,358 applications in total for the IP17 postcode area.

93% of full 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

Postcode
IP17 1AJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saxmundham

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2014
Consultation expiry
26 February 2014
Consultation start
31 January 2014
Consultation end
21 February 2014
Neighbour consultation end
21 February 2014
Last date for comments
26 February 2014
Target decision date
18 March 2014
Permission expires
13 March 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Jeremy Hancock & Associates
Agent address
Office 2 The Barn Decoy Farm Church Road Melton Woodbridge IP13 6DH

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 February 2014
Advertisement expiry
26 February 2014
Site notice start
4 February 2014
Site notice end
24 February 2014

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Saxmundham
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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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© 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: East Suffolk

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