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Diamond Mills Auction House Orwell Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7DD

DC/25/1726/ARMApproval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 21 January 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Approval of Reserved Matters of DC/25/4146/VOC (Outline Application with All Matters Reserved) - Demolition of Auction House and Erection of Seven Dwellings with associated works.

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Eastern Felixstowe
Agent
Phil Cobbold Planning Ltd
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated23 May
  3. Consult.25 Jun
  4. Target18 Jul
  5. Decided21 Jan

Decided in 243 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Diamond Mills Auction House Orwell Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7DD. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 271 days, 31 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 51 applications across Eastern Felixstowe. We hold 674 applications in total for the IP11 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
IP11 7DD
Application type
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Felixstowe

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 May 2025
Last date for comments
25 June 2025
Target decision date
18 July 2025
Permission expires
6 December 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Phil Cobbold Planning Ltd
Agent address
138 High Road Trimley St Mary Suffolk IP11 0SU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Diamond Mills Auction House, Orwell Road, FelixstoweRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    27 Oct

    Variation of Condition No. 11 of DC/24/1020/OUT

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)Part ofDC/25/4146/VOC
  2. 2025
    25 Apr

    Approval of Reserved Matters of DC/25/4146/VOC

    This applicationApprovedReserved mattersDC/25/1726/ARM

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