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Land Adjacent To Leiston Substation Sizewell Gap Road Leiston Suffolk

DC/24/4438/DRCApproval of Details Reserved by Cond.Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 7 January 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Discharge of Condition No's 6 and 9 of DC/24/2201/FUL - Detailed planning application for the construction of a 115m Section of the proposed construction electricity supply cable (132kV) route from National Grid's Leiston substation to the proposed location of the construction electricity supply primary substation adjacent to the Leiston Substation, Leiston. Application linked to Sizewell C project - Biodiversity Gain Plan, Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan.

Received
13 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Aldeburgh And Leiston
  1. Received13 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.8 Jan
  4. Target7 Feb
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land Adjacent To Leiston Substation Sizewell Gap Road Leiston Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 1,341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 4 weeks quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

99% of conditions 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
Approval of Details Reserved by Cond.
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leiston Cum Sizewell

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2024
Last date for comments
8 January 2025
Target decision date
7 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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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