Part Of Land At Picnic Site Bawdsey Quay Ferry Road Bawdsey Suffolk
Approved on 13 February 2015
Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee
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Proposal
Erection of new Visitor Centre
- Received
- 21 June 2014
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 7
- Council
- East Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Deben
- Agent
- Modece Architects
- ReceivedReceived21 Jun
- ValidatedValidated26 Jun
- Consult.Consultation21 Aug
- TargetTarget Date20 Aug
- DecidedDecided13 Feb
Decided in 232 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Part Of Land At Picnic Site Bawdsey Quay Ferry Road Bawdsey Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 237 days, 26 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Deben.
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
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bawdsey
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 June 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 21 August 2014
- Consultation start
- 1 August 2014
- Consultation end
- 21 August 2014
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 August 2014
- Last date for comments
- 21 August 2014
- Target decision date
- 20 August 2014
- Committee meeting
- 17 September 2014
- Decision issued
- 16 February 2015
- Permission expires
- 16 February 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Modece Architects
- Architect profile
- MODECE ARCHITECTS LTD
- Agent address
- Fosters, Shimpling Road, Hartest, Bury St. Edmunds IP29 4ET
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 17 July 2014
- Advertisement expiry
- 6 August 2014
- Site notice start
- 16 July 2014
- Site notice end
- 5 August 2014
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-03478500
- Documents
- 36
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
- Heritage coast: Suffolk
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 (18)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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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Source: East Suffolk
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