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16 East Street Southwold Suffolk IP18 6EH

DC/24/3573/CLPLawful Development Certificate(Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 November 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Use (Proposed) - The site is private residential and will remain as existing. This application is for the installation of a new roof-light to the rear elevation only.

Received
4 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Southwold
  1. Received4 Oct
  2. Validated4 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Nov
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 16 East Street Southwold Suffolk IP18 6EH. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in the Southwold conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Southwold. We hold 548 applications in total for the IP18 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
IP18 6EH
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate(Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southwold

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 October 2024
Target decision date
29 November 2024
Permission expires
27 November 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5A Market Hill Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 4LP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
10

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.

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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