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Field 1 Km South Of Waldringfield Mill Road Hemley Woodbridge Suffolk

DC/24/1105/AGOPrior Notification AgriculturalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 May 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior Notification (Agricultural) - A balanced cut and fill earthmoving exercise to create an irrigation reservoir using the natural clay from beneath the site. No materials will be brought onto or leave the site. Why necessary for agriculture: Direct summer surface water abstractions are no longer sustainable of licensable , to grow potatoes and onions on this land irrigation is essential. A surface water spring close to the site is the proposed source of water which is currently with the Environment Agency for review. Winter water is reliably available and a previous license is being brought back into use, the application is running in tandem with this planning application. Why designed for agriculture: The water storage is situated close to the abstraction point and carefully situated on the poorer land which has clay beneath it. There is electric power close by.

Received
22 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Orwell And Villages
Agent
Hawes Associates
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided8 May

Decided in 412 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Field 1 Km South Of Waldringfield Mill Road Hemley Woodbridge Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 412 days, 51 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Orwell And Villages.

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

Application type
Prior Notification Agricultural
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hemley

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2024
Last date for comments
4 June 2024
Target decision date
19 April 2024
Permission expires
8 May 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hawes Associates
Agent address
11 Church Walk Aldeburgh IP15 5DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • 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, 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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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