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Barn At Becks End Farm School Road Westhall Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8QZ

DC/23/3703/P3QPrior Approval Agriculture to DwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 January 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification for prior approval Class Q (A and B), Schedule 2, Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (As Amended) - Change of use of agricultural building to residential dwellinghouse

Received
27 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Halesworth And Blything
Agent
Durrant's Building Consultancy
  1. Received27 Sep
  2. Validated27 Sep
  3. Consult.7 Nov
  4. Target22 Nov
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 117 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barn At Becks End Farm School Road Westhall Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8QZ. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 117 days, 9 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Halesworth And Blything. We hold 922 applications in total for the IP19 postcode area.

87% of outline 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
IP19 8QZ
Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Westhall

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 September 2023
Last date for comments
7 November 2023
Target decision date
22 November 2023
Permission expires
22 January 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Durrant's Building Consultancy
Agent address
Pump Hill House 2b Market Street Diss IP22 4JZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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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