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The Old Chapel 5 Mill Lane Southwold Suffolk IP18 6HW

DC/23/1641/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 June 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of Existing Car Port & Garage & Erection of New 2-Storey Building to the Rear of the Site Incorporating a Garage on the Ground Floor & Bedroom with En-suite on the First Floor

Received
21 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Southwold
Agent
Southwold Building & Design Consultancy Limited
  1. Received21 Apr
  2. Validated21 Apr
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target16 Jun
  5. Decided30 Jun

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Old Chapel 5 Mill Lane Southwold Suffolk IP18 6HW. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Southwold conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Southwold. We hold 548 applications in total for the IP18 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
IP18 6HW
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southwold

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 April 2023
Last date for comments
30 May 2023
Target decision date
16 June 2023
Permission expires
30 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Southwold Building & Design Consultancy Limited
Architect profile
SOUTHWOLD BUILDING & DESIGN CONSULTANCY LIMITED
Agent address
2 Millfields Wangford Beccles Suffolk NR34 8RG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Southwold
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old ChapelOn this site · +1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • Heritage coast: Suffolk
  • 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 (18)

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, 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.

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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