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Garages Adjacent 4 Dunwich Road Southwold Suffolk

DC/24/0358/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 16 April 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of an existing attached garage/storage building into a living space to extend the property

Received
31 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Southwold
Agent
Peter Wells Architects Limited
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated31 Jan
  3. Consult.28 Mar
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Garages Adjacent 4 Dunwich Road Southwold Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Southwold conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Southwold.

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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southwold

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 January 2024
Last date for comments
28 March 2024
Target decision date
27 March 2024
Permission expires
16 April 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Peter Wells Architects Limited
Architect profile
PETER WELLS ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Ferry Quay House Ferry Quay Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 1BW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Southwold
  • 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 (19)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and brownfield registers.

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Source: East Suffolk

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