18 Hamilton Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7AR
Refused on 26 January 2024
Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior Notification - Extension and conversion of existing commercial building to accommodate 8No residential apartment dwellings across Ground, First and Second floor. Proposed extension to second floor extends capacity of existing floor area. Demolition of ground floor back-of-house area to allow for provision of ground floor residential communal courtyard amenity space. New commercial unit entrance proposed to ground floor on the intersection of Victoria Street and Hamilton Road.
- Received
- 1 December 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- East Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Eastern Felixstowe
- Agent
- GDS Ltd
- ReceivedReceived1 Dec
- ValidatedValidated1 Dec
- Consult.Consultation9 Jan
- TargetTarget Date26 Jan
- DecidedDecided26 Jan
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for demolition at 18 Hamilton Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7AR. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Felixstowe conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Eastern Felixstowe. We hold 674 applications in total for the IP11 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
- IP11 7AR
- Application type
- Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Felixstowe
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 December 2023
- Last date for comments
- 9 January 2024
- Target decision date
- 26 January 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- GDS Ltd
- Agent address
- Build Studios 203 Westminster Bridge Road Lambeth London SE1 7FP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 35
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Felixstowe
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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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