Memorial Field Rendham Road Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1BJ
Approved on 6 September 2016
Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee
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Proposal
To provide a concrete skate park for the young people of Saxmundham.
- Received
- 24 March 2016
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 59
- Council
- East Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Saxmundham
- ReceivedReceived24 Mar
- ValidatedValidated27 May
- Consult.Consultation30 Jun
- TargetTarget Date21 Jul
- DecidedDecided6 Sep
Decided in 102 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Memorial Field Rendham Road Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1BJ. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 166 days, 16 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 28 applications across Saxmundham. We hold 1,357 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 1BJ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Saxmundham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 May 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 13 July 2016
- Consultation start
- 10 June 2016
- Consultation end
- 30 June 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 June 2016
- Last date for comments
- 6 August 2016
- Target decision date
- 21 July 2016
- Committee meeting
- 5 September 2016
- Permission expires
- 6 September 2019
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 23 June 2016
- Advertisement expiry
- 13 July 2016
- Site notice start
- 9 June 2016
- Site notice end
- 29 June 2016
Additional information
- Documents
- 108
- Constraints
- 32
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (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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Source: East Suffolk
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