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First Floor Flat 3 High Street Saxmundham IP17 1DF

DC/19/1331/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 May 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from residential use to offices.

Received
29 March 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Saxmundham
  1. Received29 Mar
  2. Validated1 Apr
  3. Consult.1 May
  4. Target26 May
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at First Floor Flat 3 High Street Saxmundham IP17 1DF. East Suffolk has handled 512 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in the Saxmundham conservation area, with 12 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.

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

Postcode
IP17 1DF
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saxmundham

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 April 2019
Consultation expiry
20 May 2019
Consultation start
8 April 2019
Consultation end
1 May 2019
Neighbour consultation end
1 May 2019
Last date for comments
20 May 2019
Target decision date
26 May 2019
Permission expires
23 May 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 April 2019
Advertisement expiry
7 May 2019
Site notice start
26 April 2019
Site notice end
20 May 2019

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
13

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: 2, 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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