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Moat Farm Swan Lane Cretingham Woodbridge Suffolk IP13 7AZ

DC/24/3178/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 January 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Install a 1-bedroomed self-contained shipping container with shower room, living accommodation and kitchen, to be used as an annex, strictly in connection to the main dwelling, Moat Farmhouse.

Received
5 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Framlingham
Agent
Planning By Design
  1. Received5 Sep
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.18 Nov
  4. Target10 Dec
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Moat Farm Swan Lane Cretingham Woodbridge Suffolk IP13 7AZ. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 83 applications across Framlingham. We hold 1,034 applications in total for the IP13 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
IP13 7AZ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cretingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2024
Last date for comments
18 November 2024
Target decision date
10 December 2024
Permission expires
30 January 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planning By Design
Architect profile
PLANNING BY DESIGN LTD
Agent address
167-169 Great Portland Street Crawley West Sussex W1W 5PF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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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