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Suffolk House 13 High Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1DF

DC/14/1731/PN3Part 3 GPDO Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 July 2014

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the first floor office accommodation into private living dwelling. The accommodation is independent to the shop premises beneath and requires no alteration to convert into a residential dwelling.

Received
2 June 2014
Ward
Saxmundham
  1. Received2 Jun
  2. Validated2 Jun
  3. Consult.10 Jul
  4. Target27 Jul
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Suffolk House 13 High Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1DF. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Saxmundham conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Saxmundham. We hold 1,357 applications in total for the IP17 postcode area.

87% of outline 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 1DF
Application type
Part 3 GPDO Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saxmundham

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 June 2014
Consultation expiry
10 July 2014
Consultation start
20 June 2014
Consultation end
10 July 2014
Last date for comments
10 July 2014
Target decision date
27 July 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Saxmundham
  • Listed building: Grade II: 10, High StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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, 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.

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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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