Felixstowe Ferry Boatyard The Ferry Felixstowe Suffolk

DC/16/3043/COUChange of UseApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 26 January 2017

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

To convert existing chandlery to a tea room.

Received: 22 July 2016
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: East Suffolk Council
Ward: Felixstowe East

ReceivedReceived22 Jul
ValidatedValidated11 Nov
Consult.Consultation12 Dec
TargetTarget Date5 Jan
DecidedDecided26 Jan

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Felixstowe Ferry Boatyard The Ferry Felixstowe Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 512 applications of this type. This one was decided in 188 days, 19 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

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: Felixstowe

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 November 2016
Consultation expiry: 14 December 2016
Consultation start: 21 November 2016
Consultation end: 12 December 2016
Neighbour consultation end: 12 December 2016
Last date for comments: 14 December 2016
Target decision date: 5 January 2017
Decision issued: 27 January 2017
Permission expires: 27 January 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 24 November 2016
Advertisement expiry: 14 December 2016
Site notice start: 24 November 2016
Site notice end: 14 December 2016

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 16
Constraints: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
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 (20)

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, 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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